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# דֶּשֶׁן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1880

**fatness** — used 15 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

fatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1880/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֶּ֫שֶׁן: n.m. fatness, fat ashes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1880/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. fatness, fat ashes—abs. ד׳ ψ 63:6 + 8 times, דָּ֑שֶׁן Lv 1:16 + 3 times; cstr. דֶּשֶׁן ψ 36:9; sf. דִּשְׁנִי Ju 9:9— fatness, abundance, luxuriance, oil, Ju 9:9 (of olive tree); abundance, fertility ψ 63:5 (in simile ‖ חֵלֶב), 65:12, of food and drink, Jb 36:16 Je 31:14; passing over into fig. of spiritual blessing ψ 36:9 (ד׳ ביתך), Is 55:2. fat ashes, i.e. ashes of victims, mixed with the fat Lv 1:16; 4:12(×2); 6:3, 4 (all P) Je 31:40 1 Ki 13:3, 5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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: fatness (6); ash (5); the fatty ash (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 65:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.12/#tree)

עִ֭טַּרְתָּ שְׁנַ֣ת טוֹבָתֶ֑ךָ וּ֝מַעְגָּלֶ֗יךָ יִרְעֲפ֥וּן דָּֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* you.crown the.year your.goodness your and tracks your they drip fatness

*JPS 1917:* Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness; and Thy paths drop fatness.

[Psalms 36:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.36.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.36.9/#tree)

יִ֭רְוְיֻן מִדֶּ֣שֶׁן בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ וְנַ֖חַל עֲדָנֶ֣יךָ תַשְׁקֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* they take.their.fill from the.fatness your.house your and the.river your.delights your you give.them.to.drink

*JPS 1917:* They are abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou makest them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1880.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1880/): 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).