אַלְיָה
ʼalyâh · H451 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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fat tail
The hindmost part of a sheep, which contains a relatively large quantity of fat and was to be sacrificed to God
ExamplesExodus 29:22 “You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),
Leviticus 3:9 ‘From the sacrifice of peace offerings he shall then bring as an offering by fire to the LORD, its fat, the entire fat tail which he shall remove close to the backbone, the fat that covers the entrails, and all the fat that is on the entrails,
Leviticus 7:3 ‘Then he shall offer from it all its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תָּמִיםwithout defect, blameless, whole 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חֶלֶבfat 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 2
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 1 word
- ὀσφῦς osphŷs · G3751 · waist, genitals, loins
- אַלְיָה (ʼalyâh, H451) denotes specifically the fat tail portion of sheep used in sacrificial contexts (Exodus 29:22, Leviticus 3:9, etc.), while ὀσφῦς (osphŷs, G3751) refers more broadly to the loin/hip region of the body; the LXX translators rendered this specific anatomical part with the more general Greek term for the posterior body region where such fat deposits anatomically locate.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Animals001001002
- אַלְיָה names the fat tail of a sheep, a portion specifically set apart in the peace-offering sacrifices.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H451. alyah אַלְיָה noun feminine fat tail of sheep, still accounted a delicacy in the…
אַלְיָה noun feminine fat tail of sheep, still accounted a delicacy in the East; (Mishna id. אַלִּיתָא אַלְיְתָה, ᵑ7,, etc.; Arabic , compare FlTWB i. 418 a) Exo 29:22; Lev 3:9; Lev 7:3; Lev 8:25 (all || חֵ֫לֶב); Lev 9:19, probably also 1Sa 9:24 for הֶעָלֶיהָ see Gei Dr (compare TristrNat. Hist. Bib. ch. vi RiHWB Schafe SmithDict. Bib. Sheep).
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
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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