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title: דָּשֵׁן — fat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּשֵׁן (1879), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: fat. BDB 1906: adj. fat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּשֵׁן

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«דָּשֵׁן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fat** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1879 · **BDB:** דָּשֵׁן²

### Glosses

fat (2); \[the\].fat.\[people\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. fat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. fat, דָּשֵׁן Is 30:23 (‖ שָׁמֵן), of לֶחֶם as product of ground; fig. of righteous as trees דְּשֵׁנִים ψ 92:15 (‖ רעננים) fat, full of oil (?) or sap (Che; cf. דֶּשֶׁן Ju 9:9); as subst. vigorous, stalwart ones (opp. יוֹרְדֵי עָפָר cf. Che) ψ 22:30 דִּשְׁנֵי־ אֶרֶץ (Brüll שֹׁכְנֵי, RenanHist. iii. 134 ישְׁבֵי).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּשֵׁן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1879/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 92:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.92.15/)

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ע֭וֹד יְנוּב֣וּן בְּשֵׂיבָ֑ה דְּשֵׁנִ֖ים וְרַֽעֲנַנִּ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* still they will.bear.fruit in old.age fat and fresh they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and richness;

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[Psalms 22:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.22.30/)

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אָכְל֬וּ וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוּ֨וּ ׀ כָּֽל־דִּשְׁנֵי־אֶ֗רֶץ לְפָנָ֣יו יִ֭כְרְעוּ כָּל־יוֹרְדֵ֣י עָפָ֑ר וְ֝נַפְשׁ֗וֹ לֹ֣א חִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.have.eaten and they.have.bowed.down all \[the\].fat.\[people\] of.\[the\].earth before him they.will.bow.down all \[those.who\].go.down of.dust and \[one who\].his.life not he.has.preserved.alive

*JPS 1917:* All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.

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