Genesis 4:4
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
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Zechariah 11:16
For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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חֶלֶב
cheleb · kheh'-leb
79 times translated as this KJV form92 total Strong's occurrences
fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part
Strong's KJV usage: × best, fat(-ness), × finest, grease, marrow.
Strong's first: Genesis 4:4Strong's last: Ezekiel 44:15
Open full H2459 profile →שָׁמֵן
shâmên · shaw-mane'
8 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
greasy, i.e. gross; figuratively, rich
Strong's KJV usage: fat, lusty, plenteous.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 49:20Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:16
Open full H8082 profile →דָּשֵׁן
dâshên · daw-shane'
7 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
Strong's KJV usage: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 31:20Strong's last: Isaiah 34:7
Open full H1878 profile →בָּרִיא
bârîyʼ · baw-ree'
5 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
fatted or plump
Strong's KJV usage: fat ((fleshed), -ter), fed, firm, plenteous, rank.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 41:4Strong's last: Zechariah 11:16
Open full H1277 profile →שָׁמַן
shâman · shaw-man'
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to shine, i.e. (by analogy) be (causatively, make) oily or gross
Strong's KJV usage: become (make, wax) fat.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 5:28
Open full H8080 profile →דָּשֵׁן
dâshên · daw-shane'
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
fat; figuratively, rich, fertile
Strong's KJV usage: fat.
Strong's first: Psalms 22:29Strong's last: Isaiah 30:23
Open full H1879 profile →פֶּדֶר
peder · peh'der
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
suet
Strong's KJV usage: fat.
Strong's first: Leviticus 1:8Strong's last: Leviticus 8:20
Open full H6309 profile →שֶׁמֶן
shemen · sheh'-men
2 times translated as this KJV form192 total Strong's occurrences
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
Strong's KJV usage: anointing, × fat (things), × fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, pine.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:1Strong's last: Isaiah 28:4
Open full H8081 profile →בָּרָא
bârâʼ · baw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form54 total Strong's occurrences
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
Strong's KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 2:29Strong's last: 1 Samuel 2:29
Open full H1254 profile →בְּרִי
bᵉrîy · ber-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
fat
Strong's KJV usage: fat.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 34:20Strong's last: Ezekiel 34:20
Open full H1274 profile →חָלַץ
châlats · khaw-lats'
1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflex.) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
Strong's KJV usage: arm (self), (go, ready) armed (× man, soldier), deliver, draw out, make fat, loose, (ready) prepared, put off, take away, withdraw self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 58:11Strong's last: Isaiah 58:11
Open full H2502 profile →טָפַשׁ
ṭâphash · taw-fash'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, apparently to be thick; figuratively, to be stupid
Strong's KJV usage: be fat.
Strong's first: Psalms 119:70Strong's last: Psalms 119:70
Open full H2954 profile →יָקָר
yâqâr · yaw-kawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
valuable (objectively or subjectively)
Strong's KJV usage: brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 37:20Strong's last: Psalms 37:20
Open full H3368 profile →מַרְבֵּק
marbêq · mar-bake'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a stall (for cattle)
Strong's KJV usage: × fat(-ted), stall.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 28:24Strong's last: 1 Samuel 28:24
Open full H4770 profile →מַשְׁמָן
mashmân · mash-mawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
fat, i.e. (literally and abstractly) fatness; but usually (figuratively and concretely) a rich dish, a fertile field, a robust man
Strong's KJV usage: fat (one, -ness, -test, -test place).
Strong's first: Nehemiah 8:10Strong's last: Nehemiah 8:10
Open full H4924 profile →פּוּשׁ
pûwsh · poosh
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to spread; figuratively, act proudly
Strong's KJV usage: grow up, be grown fat, spread selves, be scattered.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 50:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:11
Open full H6335 profile →פִּימָה
pîymâh · pee-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
obesity
Strong's KJV usage: collops.
Strong's first: Job 15:27Strong's last: Job 15:27
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H1878
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
H1878
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
H1878
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
H2459
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
no direct Strong's tag
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
H8080
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
no direct Strong's tag
Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
no direct Strong's tag
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
no direct Strong's tag
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
H8081
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
H8081
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
H1879
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
H1878
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
H2459
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
H1878
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
H2459
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
H2502
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
H8080
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
H6335
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
H2459
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
H8082
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
H8082
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
H1274
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
H2459
And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
H2459
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
English meaning and historical usage.
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fat
FAT, adjective
1. Fleshy; plump; corpulent; abounding with an oily concrete substance, as an animal body; the contrary to lean; as a fat man; a fat ox.
2. Coarse; gross.
Nay, added fat pollutions of our own.
3. Dull; heavy; stupid; unteachable.
Make the heart of this people fat Isaiah 6:10.
4. Rich; wealthy; affluent.
These are terrible alarms to persons grown fat and wealthy.
5. Rich; producing a large income; as a fat benefice.
6. Rich; fertile; as a fat soil; or rich; nourishing; as fat pasture.
7. Abounding in spiritual grace and comfort.
They [the righteous] shall be fat and flourishing. Psalms 42:1.
FAT, noun
1. An oily concrete substance, deposited in the cells of the adipose or cellular membrane of animal bodies. In most parts of the body, the fat lies immediately under the skin. fat is of various degrees of consistence, as in tallow, lard and oil. It has been recently ascertained to consist of two substances, stearine and elaine, the former of which is solid, the latter liquid, at common temperatures, and on the different proportions of which its degree of consistence depends.
2. The best or richest part of a thing.
Abel brought of the fat of his flock. Genesis 4:4.
FAT, verb transitive To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
FAT, verb intransitive To grow fat plump and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.
FAT,
VAT, noun
A large tub, cistern or vessel used for various purposes, as by brewers to run their wort in, by tanners for holding their bark and hides, etc. It is also a wooden vessel containing a quarter or eight bushels of grain, and a pan for containing water in salt-works, a vessel for wine, etc.
The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel 2:24.
FAT, noun A measure of capacity, but indefinite.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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