σιτευτός
siteutós · G4618 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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fat, fattened, grain-fattened
Pertaining to being well fed on grain and hence fattened
ExamplesLuke 15:23 and bring the fattened calf, slaughter it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
Luke 15:27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’
Luke 15:30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
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valuable, prize
Pertaining to being valuable or prized on the basis of its being well fed and fat (occurring in reference to a calf)
ExamplesLuke 15:23 and bring the fattened calf, slaughter it, and let’s eat and celebrate;
Luke 15:27 “And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’
Luke 15:30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your wealth with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- מְרִיא mᵉrîyʼ · H4806 · fatling
- Direct Hebrew translation equivalent for 'fattened' (of livestock); used in contexts like 1 Sam 15:9, Ezek 39:18 for animals fattened for sacrifice or feasting, precisely the semantic domain of σιτευτός.
- בָּרִיא bârîyʼ · H1277 · fat, plump, thick
- Common Hebrew adjective for 'fat/fatted' animals (Gen 41:2-4, Ezek 34:3, 20), standard translation equivalent for livestock prepared for consumption, overlapping σιτευτός's core sense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Fat, fattened, grain-fattened44.2
- The adjective describes an animal specially raised and fed for slaughter. The father commands, “bring the fattened calf, slaughter it, and let's eat and celebrate” (Luke 15:23).
- Valuable, prize65.8
- The same adjective, in the same parable, also marks the calf as the household's most prized animal, reserved for a special occasion. The elder brother complains that their father “has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound” (Luke 15:27).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σιτευτη, σιτευτόν (σιτεύω, to feed with wheat, to fatten), fattened, fatted: Lk 15:23, Lk…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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