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# שָׁמָן

Biblical Hebrew

**fat** — 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

fat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b8_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁמָן: fat, fertile, place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b8_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fat, fertile, place;—pl. cstr. מִשְׁמַנֵּי הָאָרֶץ (Ges§§ 20 a, 93 ee) Gn 27:28 (poem in J; מִן partit.), v 39 (poem in E; מִן priv. according to Thes Ew Di Gunk al.; Ency. Bib. 1184, cf. Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 27:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.28/#tree)

וְיִֽתֶּן־לְךָ֙ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִטַּל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּמִשְׁמַנֵּ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְרֹ֥ב דָּגָ֖ן וְתִירֹֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and may.he.give to you (the) God some of.the.dew of the.heavens and some of.the.fatness(es) of the.earth and abundance of.grain and new.wine

*JPS 1917:* So God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fat places of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.

[Genesis 27:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.39/#tree)

וַיַּ֛עַן יִצְחָ֥ק אָבִ֖יו וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֑יו הִנֵּ֞ה מִשְׁמַנֵּ֤י הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ יִהְיֶ֣ה מֽוֹשָׁבֶ֔ךָ וּמִטַּ֥ל הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם מֵעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Isaac father his and he.said to him there! away from.the.fatness(es) of the.earth it.will.be dwelling your and away from.the.dew of the.heavens (from) above

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b8_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c1_5de_5b8_5df/): 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).