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title: מִשְׁמָן — fatness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִשְׁמָן (4924), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: fatness. BDB 1906: fatness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִשְׁמָן

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«מִשְׁמָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fatness** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 4924 · **BDB:** מִשְׁמָן²

### Glosses

fat.places (1); his.fat (1); the.fatness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fatness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4924/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fatness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4924/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fatness;—cstr. וּמִשְׁמַן בְּשָׂרוֹ יֵרָזֶה Is 17:4 (fig.); pl. concr.: stout, vigorous, ones, sf. מִשְׁמַנָּיו Is 10:16 (opp. רָזוֹן; on form v. Ges§ 93 pp), מִשְׁמַנֵּיהֶם ψ 78:31; = fertile spots, cstr. מִשְׁמַנֵּי מְדִינָה Dn 11:24. Cf. also 1 S 15:9, v. מִשְׁנֶה 3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִשְׁמָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4924/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 78:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.31/)

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וְאַ֤ף אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ עָ֘לָ֤ה בָהֶ֗ם וַֽ֭יַּהֲרֹג בְּמִשְׁמַנֵּיהֶ֑ם וּבַחוּרֵ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל הִכְרִֽיעַ׃

*Word for word:* and the.anger of.God it.went.up in them and he.killed among their.fat ones and the.young.men of.Israel he.made.bow.down

*JPS 1917:* When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

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[Isaiah 17:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.17.4/)

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וְהָיָה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא יִדַּ֖ל כְּב֣וֹד יַעֲקֹ֑ב וּמִשְׁמַ֥ן בְּשָׂר֖וֹ יֵרָזֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be in the day (the) that it.will.become.low the.glory of.Jacob and the.fatness its.flesh his it.will.be.made.lean

*JPS 1917:* And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

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