שָׁמַן
shâman · H8080 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to be well-fed
Literally: to be fat; hence: state in which humans or animals look healthy and strong as a result of an abundance of food; it is important to note that fatness is usually regarded as a good quality in the OT, even though the causes and consequences are not necessarily considered positive; sometimes, however, fatness is associated with dullness and unresponsiveness
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:15 “But Jeshurun became fat and kicked— You have become fat, thick, and obstinate— Then he abandoned God who made him, And rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Nehemiah 9:25 “They captured fortified cities and a fertile land. They took possession of houses full of every good thing, Carved out cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, Fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled and put on fat, And lived luxuriously in Your great goodness.
Jeremiah 5:28 ‘They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, so that they may be successful; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
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Literally: to cause (someone else's) heart to be fat; hence: causative action by which humans cause the mind of other humans to be dull and unresponsive (to make (someone's) heart fat > to make (someone's) mind dull and unresponsive)
ExamplesIsaiah 6:10 “Make the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes blind, So that they will not see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their hearts, And return and be healed.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Not stated: they 2
- יְשֻׁרוּןJeshurun 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֵבheart, mind 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
- עָבָה ʻâbâh · H5666 · to be fat, to be thick
- Both denote increase in size or volume, being thick or fat, a swelling or fattening process.
- טָפַשׁ ṭâphash · H2954 · to be fat
- Both words denote the state or process of becoming fat, interchangeable senses describing the same physical condition.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Fat002001001028
- This verb denotes growing physically fat, as in Deuteronomy 32:15's rebuke that Jeshurun became fat and kicked, growing fat, thick, and obstinate.
- Foolish002001002010
- The verb also describes a heart made insensitive or spiritually dull, as in Isaiah 6:10's command to make the hearts of this people insensitive, so that they will not see, hear, or understand.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8080. shamen I. [שָׁמֵן] verb grow fat (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id., also שֶׁמֶן Arabic be…
I. [שָׁמֵן] verb grow fat (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id., also שֶׁמֶן Arabic be fat; Aramaic especially derived species and derivatives; שְׁמֵין adjective fat: Assyrian šammu, fat; Phoenician (Punic) שמן oil, so Palmyrene שמנא Lzb378; on relation of meanings Frä147); —
Qal Perfect2masculine singular שָׁמַ֫נְתָּ Deu 32:15 and Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִשְׁמַן Deu 32:15 both of Israel (prosperous and arrogant) under figure of fat beast; so Perfect3plural שָֽׁמְנוּ Jer 5:28 (of wicked).
Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine plural וַיַשְׁמִינוּ Neh 9:25 were sated and shewed fatness (inner causative); Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵן Isa 6:10 make fat (dull, unreceptive), הַוֶּה הָיָם לֵב.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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