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# מִשְׁמָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4924

**fatness** — used 4 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/1502/4924/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁמָן²: fatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4924/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fatness;—cstr. וּמִשְׁמַן בְּשָׂרוֹ יֵרָזֶה Is 17:4 (fig.); pl. concr.: stout, vigorous, ones, sf. מִשְׁמַנָּיו Is 10:16 (opp. רָזוֹן; on form v. Ges§ 93 pp), מִשְׁמַנֵּיהֶם ψ 78:31; = fertile spots, cstr. מִשְׁמַנֵּי מְדִינָה Dn 11:24. Cf. also 1 S 15:9, v. מִשְׁנֶה 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fat places (1); his fat (1); the fatness (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.31/#tree)

וְאַ֤ף אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ עָ֘לָ֤ה בָהֶ֗ם וַֽ֭יַּהֲרֹג בְּמִשְׁמַנֵּיהֶ֑ם וּבַחוּרֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִכְרִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and the.anger of.God it.went.up in them and he.killed among their.fat ones and the.young.men of.Israel he.made.bow.down

*JPS 1917:* When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

[Isaiah 17:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.4/#tree)

וְהָיָה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִדַּ֖ל כְּב֣וֹד יַעֲקֹ֑ב וּמִשְׁמַ֥ן בְּשָׂר֖וֹ יֵרָזֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that it.will.become.low the.glory of.Jacob and the.fatness its.flesh his it.will.be.made.lean

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4924.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4924/): 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).