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# שָׁמֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8082

**fat** — used 10 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/1513/8082/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁמֵן²: adj. fat, robust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8082/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. fat, robust;—שׁ׳ m. Ju 3:29 +, f. שְׁמֵנָה Gn 49:20 +;— fat, rich, of food, Gn 49:20 (poem in J), Is 30:23 (+ דָּשֵׁן), Hb 1:16 (‖ בְּרִאָה); of land, fertile Nu 13:20 (E), Ne 9:25, 35, pasturage Ez 34:14 1 Ch 4:40. (1 S 15:9 v. מִשְׁנֶה 3). stout, robust, of men Ju 3:29 (‖ אִישׁ חַיִל; v. GFM); f. coll. (fig. of flock) Ez 34:16 (+ הַחֲזָקָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 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: fertile (5); \[is\] rich (1); \[sheep\] (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.20/#tree)

מֵאָשֵׁ֖ר שְׁמֵנָ֣ה לַחְמ֑וֹ וְה֥וּא יִתֵּ֖ן מַֽעֲדַנֵּי־מֶֽלֶךְ׃ס

*Word for word:* from Asher \[will.be\].rich food his and he he.will.provide delicacies of.a.king

*JPS 1917:* As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

[Habakkuk 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.1.16/#tree)

עַל־כֵּן֙ יְזַבֵּ֣חַ לְחֶרְמ֔וֹ וִֽיקַטֵּ֖ר לְמִכְמַרְתּ֑וֹ כִּ֤י בָהֵ֙מָּה֙ שָׁמֵ֣ן חֶלְק֔וֹ וּמַאֲכָל֖וֹ בְּרִאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* therefore he.sacrifices to net his and he.makes.smoke to his.fishing net (dm) by them \[is\].rich portion his and food his \[is\].fat

*JPS 1917:* Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and offer unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food plenteous.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8082.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8082/): 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).