Lexicon alyah: the fat tail (of sheep) Original Word: אַלְיָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: alyah Phonetic Spelling: (al-yaw') Short Definition: tail NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alahDefinitionthe fat tail (of sheep) NASB Translationfat tail (5).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אַלְיָה noun feminine fat tail of sheep, still accounted a delicacy in the East; (Mishna id. ᵑ7, אַלְיְתָה, אַלִּיתָא, etc.; Arabic , compare Fl TWB i. 418 a) Exodus 29:22; Leviticus 3:9; Leviticus 7:3; Leviticus 8:25 (all "" חֵ֫לֶב); Leviticus 9:19, probably also 1 Samuel 9:24 for הֶעָלֶיהָ see Gei Dr (compare Tristr Nat. Hist. Bib. ch. vi Ri HWB Schafe Smith Dict. Bib. Sheep). Strong's rump From 'alah (in the original sense of strength); the stout part, i.e. The fat tail of the Oriental sheep -- rump. see HEBREW 'alah |