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title: יֹתֶרֶת — appendage · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יֹתֶרֶת (3508), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: appendage. BDB 1906: n.f. appendage. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יֹתֶרֶת

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«יֹתֶרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **appendage** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** 3508 · **BDB:** יֹתֶ֫רֶת

### Glosses

lobe (7); the.lobe (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

appendage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3508/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. appendage [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3508/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. appendage (term. techn. of P);—most prob. (fat) appendage, a (fatty) mass at opening of liver of sacrificial animal, extending to kidneys (v. Di DrPolychr. Bible, Lv 3, 4); GFM (Dec. 28, 1899, privately) points out that fat parts are always disting. from this; cf. now on יתרת Id.Sacrifice EB 4206 and especially Id.Oriental. Stud. für Th. Noldeke (1906), 761, where it is shewn to be the caudate lobe of the liver. הַיֹּתֶרֶת עַל־הַכָּבֵד Ex 29:13 Lv 3:4, 10, 15; 4:9; 7:4; הַיּ׳מִן־הַכָּבֵד Lv 9:10; cstr. יֹתֶרֶת הַכָּבֵד Ex 29:22 Lv 8:16, 25; 9:19 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יֹתֶרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3508/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 9:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/)

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וְאֶת־הַחֲלָבִ֖ים מִן־הַשּׁ֑וֹר וּמִן־הָאַ֔יִל הָֽאַלְיָ֤ה וְהַֽמְכַסֶּה֙ וְהַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְיֹתֶ֖רֶת הַכָּבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the fat(s) from the ox and from the ram the.fat tail and the covering and the kidneys and the.lobe of the.liver

*JPS 1917:* and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.

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[Leviticus 3:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.3.4/)

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וְאֵת֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י הַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְאֶת־הַחֵ֙לֶב֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲלֵהֶ֔ן אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַכְּסָלִ֑ים וְאֶת־הַיֹּתֶ֙רֶת֙ עַל־הַכָּבֵ֔ד עַל־הַכְּלָי֖וֹת יְסִירֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.two the kidneys and (et) the fat which \[is\].on them which \[is\].on the loins and (et) the lobe on the liver with the kidneys he will.remove.it

*JPS 1917:* and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away hard by the kidneys.

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