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# מֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4220

**fatling** — used 2 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

fatling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4220/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵחַ²: fatling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4220/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fatling (Ph. מח fat (adj.); NH מֵיחָא fig. of choice flour);—only pl. abs.: עֹלוֹת מֵיחִים ψ 66:15 burnt offerings of fatlings; so מֵחִים Is 5:17 (‖ כְּבָשִׂים) according to Hi Du CheHpt (read חֳרָבוֹת and del. גָּרִים); most, fat ones, fig. for rich men.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of fatlings (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 5:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.17/#tree)

וְרָע֥וּ כְבָשִׂ֖ים כְּדָבְרָ֑ם וְחָרְב֥וֹת מֵחִ֖ים גָּרִ֥ים יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.graze lambs like their.own pasture and.\[the\] ruins of.fatlings \[those.who\].sojourn they.will.eat

*JPS 1917:* Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

[Psalms 66:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.66.15/#tree)

עֹ֘ל֤וֹת מֵחִ֣ים אַעֲלֶה־לָּ֭ךְ עִם־קְטֹ֣רֶת אֵילִ֑ים אֶ֥עֱשֶֽׂה בָקָ֖ר עִם־עַתּוּדִ֣ים סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* burnt.offerings of.fatlings I.will.offer.up to you with \[the\].smoke of.rams I.will.offer cattle with goats Selah

*JPS 1917:* I will offer unto Thee burnt-offerings of fatlings, with the sweet smoke of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4220.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4220/): 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).