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# דָּשֵׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1879

**fat** — used 3 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 [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּשֵׁן²: adj. fat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. fat, דָּשֵׁן Is 30:23 (‖ שָׁמֵן), of לֶחֶם as product of ground; fig. of righteous as trees דְּשֵׁנִים ψ 92:15 (‖ רעננים) fat, full of oil (?) or sap (Che; cf. דֶּשֶׁן Ju 9:9); as subst. vigorous, stalwart ones (opp. יוֹרְדֵי עָפָר cf. Che) ψ 22:30 דִּשְׁנֵי־ אֶרֶץ (Brüll שֹׁכְנֵי, RenanHist. iii. 134 ישְׁבֵי).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fat (2); \[the\] fat \[people\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 92:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.15/#tree)

ע֭וֹד יְנוּב֣וּן בְּשֵׂיבָ֑ה דְּשֵׁנִ֖ים וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* still they will.bear.fruit in old.age fat and fresh they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and richness;

[Psalms 22:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.30/#tree)

אָכְל֬וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֨וּ ׀ כָּֽל־דִּשְׁנֵי־אֶ֗רֶץ לְפָנָ֣יו יִ֭כְרְעוּ כָּל־יוֹרְדֵ֣י עָפָ֑ר וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ לֹ֣א חִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.eaten and they.have.bowed.down all \[the\].fat.\[people\] of.\[the\].earth before him they.will.bow.down all \[those.who\].go.down of.dust and \[one who\].his.life not he.has.preserved.alive

*JPS 1917:* All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1879.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/): 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).