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title: שָׁמֵן — grow fat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁמֵן (8080), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: grow fat. BDB 1906: vb. grow fat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁמֵן

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«שָׁמֵן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grow 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 8080 · **BDB:** שָׁמֵן

### Glosses

he.became.fat (1); make.fat (1); they.grew.fat (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grow fat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8080/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. grow fat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8080/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grow fat (NH Hiph. id., also שֶׁמֶן; Arabic سَمِنَ be fat; Aramaic ܫܡܶܢ, especially der. spec. and deriv.; שְׁמֵין adj. fat: Assyrian šamnu, fat; Ph. (Pun.) שמן oil, so Palm. שמנא Lzb378; on relation of meanings Frä147);— Pf. 2 ms. שָׁמַ֫נְתָּ Dt 32:15 and Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּשְׁמַן v 15 both of Israel (propserous and arrogant) under fig. of fat beast; so Pf. 3 pl. שָֽׁמְנוּ Je 5:28 (of wicked). Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּשְׁמִינוּ Ne 9:25 were sated and shewed fatness (inner causat.); Imv. ms. הַשְׁמֵן Is 6:10 make fat (dull, unreceptive), לֵב הָעָם הַזֶּה.

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁמֵן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8080/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 32:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.15/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ן יְשֻׁרוּן֙ וַיִּבְעָ֔ט שָׁמַ֖נְתָּ עָבִ֣יתָ כָּשִׂ֑יתָ וַיִּטֹּשׁ֙ אֱל֣וֹהַ עָשָׂ֔הוּ וַיְנַבֵּ֖ל צ֥וּר יְשֻׁעָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.became.fat Jeshurun and he.kicked you.have.become.fat you.have.become.bloated you.have.become.gorged and he.abandoned God \[who\].he made.him and he.treated.with.contempt the.rock his.salvation his

*JPS 1917:* But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.

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[Jeremiah 5:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.5.28/)

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שָׁמְנ֣וּ עָשְׁת֗וּ גַּ֚ם עָֽבְר֣וּ דִבְרֵי־רָ֔ע דִּ֣ין לֹא־דָ֔נוּ דִּ֥ין יָת֖וֹם וְיַצְלִ֑יחוּ וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט אֶבְיוֹנִ֖ים לֹ֥א שָׁפָֽטוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.have.become.fat they.have.become.smooth also they.have.transgressed matters of.evil a.cause not they.have.pleaded \[the\].cause of.\[the\].fatherless and they.will.have.success and.\[the\] justice of.needy.\[people\] not they.have.judged

*JPS 1917:* They are waxen fat, they are become sleek; yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they might make it to prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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