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# מְרִיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4806

**fatling** — used 8 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/1502/4806/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְרִיא: fatling, fatlings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4806/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fatling, fatlings;—abs. מ׳ 2 S 6:13 + 3 times; pl. abs. מְרִיאִים Is 1:11, cstr. מְרִיאֵי Ez 39:18; sf. מְרִיאֵיכֶם Am 5:22;—fatling: עֵגֶל וּכְפִיר וּמְרִיא Is 11:6; elsewhere only of sacrificial animals, שֶׁלֶם מְרִיאֵיכֶם Am 5:22 (‖ עֹלוֹת, מִנְחֹתֵיכֶם); חֵלֶב מְרִיאִים Is 1:11 (‖ עֹלוֹת אֵילִים, דַּם פָּרִים, etc.); מְרִיאֵי בָשָׁן Ez 39:18 (+ פָּרִים, אֵילִים, etc.); also sg. coll., וַיִּזְבַּח שׁוֹר וּמְרִיא 2 S 6:13, so (+ צֹאן וּבָקָר) 1 K 1:9, and (+ שׁוֹר, צֹאן) v 19, 25.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fatling (4); a fatling (1); fatlings (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 6:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.13/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י כִּ֧י צָעֲד֛וּ נֹשְׂאֵ֥י אֲרוֹן־יְהוָ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֣ה צְעָדִ֑ים וַיִּזְבַּ֥ח שׁ֖וֹר וּמְרִֽיא׃

*Word for word:* and it.was (dm) they.had.stepped \[those.who\].carried (of).the.ark of.Yahweh six steps and he.sacrificed an.ox and a.fatling

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, that when they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

[Amos 5:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.5.22/#tree)

כִּ֣י אִם־תַּעֲלוּ־לִ֥י עֹל֛וֹת וּמִנְחֹתֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֣א אֶרְצֶ֑ה וְשֶׁ֥לֶם מְרִיאֵיכֶ֖ם לֹ֥א אַבִּֽיט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) if you.will.offer.up to me burnt.offerings and your.grain offerings not I.will.accept.\[them\] and the.peace.offering your.fatlings your not I.will.pay.attention.to

*JPS 1917:* Yea, though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meal-offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4806.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4806/): 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).