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title: אַלְיָה — fat tail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַלְיָה (451), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: fat tail. BDB 1906: n.f. fat tail. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַלְיָה

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«אַלְיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fat tail** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 451 · **BDB:** אַלִיַה

### Glosses

tail (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fat tail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fat tail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fat tail of sheep (Mish. id. 𝔗, אַלְיְתָה, אַלִּיתָא, etc.; Arabic أَلْيَة, cf. Fl.TWB i. 418 a) Ex 29:22; Lv 3:9; 7:3; 8:25 (all ‖ חֵ֫לֶב); 9:19, prob. also 1 S 9:24 for הֶעָלֶיהָ v. Gei Dr (cf. Tristram Nat. Hist. Bib. ch. vi RiHWB Schafe SmithDict. Bib. sheep).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַלְיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/451/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 7:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.3/)

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וְאֵ֥ת כָּל־חֶלְבּ֖וֹ יַקְרִ֣יב מִמֶּ֑נּוּ אֵ֚ת הָֽאַלְיָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַחֵ֖לֶב הַֽמְכַסֶּ֥ה אֶת־הַקֶּֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all fat its he.will.present from it (et) the.fat tail and (et) the fat \[which\] covers (et) the entrails

*JPS 1917:* And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

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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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