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# אַלְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H451

**fat tail** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fat tail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַלִיַה: n.f. fat tail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fat tail of sheep (Mish. id. 𝔗, אַלְיְתָה, אַלִּיתָא, etc.; Arabic أَلْيَة, cf. Fl.TWB i. 418 a) Ex 29:22; Lv 3:9; 7:3; 8:25 (all ‖ חֵ֫לֶב); 9:19, prob. also 1 S 9:24 for הֶעָלֶיהָ v. Gei Dr (cf. Tristram Nat. Hist. Bib. ch. vi RiHWB Schafe SmithDict. Bib. sheep).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: tail (5).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 7:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.3/#tree)

וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־חֶלְבּ֖וֹ יַקְרִ֣יב מִמֶּ֑נּוּ אֵ֚ת הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַחֵ֖לֶב הַֽמְכַסֶּ֥ה אֶת־הַקֶּֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all fat its he.will.present from it (et) the.fat tail and (et) the fat \[which\] covers (et) the entrails

*JPS 1917:* And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

[Leviticus 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַחֲלָבִ֖ים מִן־הַשּׁ֑וֹר וּמִן־הָאַ֔יִל הָֽאַלְיָ֤ה וְהַֽמְכַסֶּה֙ וְהַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְיֹתֶ֖רֶת הַכָּבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the fat(s) from the ox and from the ram the.fat tail and the covering and the kidneys and the.lobe of the.liver

*JPS 1917:* and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/451.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).