Lexicon shamen: to grow fat Original Word: שָׁמַןPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: shamen Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-man') Short Definition: fat NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto grow fat NASB Translationfat (1), grew fat (2), grown fat (1), insensitive (1), render (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs I. [ שָׁמֵן] verb grow fat (Late Hebrew Hiph`il id., also שֶׁמֶן Arabic  be fat; Aramaic  especially derived species and derivatives; שְׁמֵין adjective fat: Assyrian šammu, fat; Phoenician (Punic) שמן oil, so Palmyrene שמנא Lzb 378; on relation of meanings Frä 147); — Qal Perfect2masculine singular שָׁמַ֫נְתָּ Deuteronomy 32:15 and Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִשְׁמַן Deuteronomy 32:15 both of Israel (prosperous and arrogant) under figure of fat beast; so Perfect3plural שָֽׁמְנוּ Jeremiah 5:28 (of wicked). Hiph`il Imperfect3masculine plural וַיַשְׁמִינוּ Nehemiah 9:25 were sated and shewed fatness (inner causative); Imperative masculine singular הַשְׁמֵן Isaiah 6:10 make fat (dull, unreceptive), לֵב הָיָם הַוֶּה.
Strong's become make, wax fat A primitive root; to shine, i.e. (by analogy) be (causatively, make) oily or gross -- become (make, wax) fat. |
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