מֵחַ
mêach · H4220 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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fatling
A young animal that is fattened for slaughter
ExamplesPsalm 66:15 I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat animals, With the smoke of rams; I shall make an offering of bulls with male goats. Selah
Isaiah 5:17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the ruins of the wealthy.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חׇרְבָּהdesolation 1
- עֹלָהburnt offering 1
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- מְרִיא mᵉrîyʼ · H4806 · fatling
- Hebrew term for fattened livestock, especially cattle; both terms denote animals fattened for consumption or sacrifice.
- עֵגֶל ʻêgel · H5695 · male calf
- While more specific to young cattle, עֵגֶל is frequently used in contexts of fatted calves prepared for feasting (cf. 1 Sam 28:24, Luke 15:23 LXX), overlapping semantically with מֵחַ as choice meat animals.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σιτευτός siteutós · G4618 · fat, fattened, grain-fattened
- Greek lexical equivalent for a fattened animal prepared for slaughter or feasting; used in LXX to translate Hebrew terms for fatted animals.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- מֵחַ denotes a fatted or well-fed animal, as in Isaiah 5:17's picture of lambs grazing and strangers eating "the ruins of the fat ones," classing it among domestic livestock terms.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4220. meach [מֵחַ] noun [masculine] fatling (Phoenician מח fat (adjective ); Late Hebrew…
[מֵחַ] noun [masculine] fatling (Phoenician מח fat (adjective ); Late Hebrew מֵיחָא figurative of choice flour); — only plural absolute: מֵיחִים עֹלוֺת Psa 66:15 burnt offerings of fatlings; so מֵחִים Isa 5:17 (|| כְּבָשִׂים) according to Hi Du CheHpt (read חֳרָבוֺת and strike out גָּרִים); most, fat ones, figurative for rich men.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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