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title: אָבַס — feed · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָבַס (75), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: feed. BDB 1906: vb. feed, fatten. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָבַס

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«אָבַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **feed** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 75 · **BDB:** אָבַס

### Glosses

fattened (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

feed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. feed, fatten [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. feed, fatten (Mish. id.;? Ass. \[abâsu\] DlW 46) Pt. pass. fattened, אָבוּס of ox Pr 15:17; אֲבוּסִים of fowl 1 K 5:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָבַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/75/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 15:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.17/)

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ט֤וֹב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְאַהֲבָה־שָׁ֑ם מִשּׁ֥וֹר אָ֝ב֗וּס וְשִׂנְאָה־בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good a.portion of.vegetable\[s\] and love \[is\].there more than.an.ox fattened and hatred \[is\].with it

*JPS 1917:* Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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[1 Kings 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/)

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עֲשָׂרָ֨ה בָקָ֜ר בְּרִאִ֗ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים בָּקָ֛ר רְעִ֖י וּמֵ֣אָה צֹ֑אן לְ֠בַד מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל וּצְבִי֙ וְיַחְמ֔וּר וּבַרְבֻּרִ֖ים אֲבוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one.hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened

*JPS 1917:* ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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