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Strong's #8081 - שֶׁמֶן
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2850) nms (סהמנ ShMN) AC: ? CO: Oil AB: ?: [from: ms- oil as the breath]
V) nms (סהמנ ShMN) - Fat: To be fat or full of oil. KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Hiphil) fat - Strongs: H8080 (שָׁמֵן)
Nm) nms (סהמנ ShMN) - Oil: Usually olive oil and used as a medicinal ointment. Also meaning fat or rich. KJV (203): oil, ointment, olive, oiled, fat, things, plenteous, lusty - Strongs: H8081 (שֶׁמֶן), H8082 (שָׁמֵן)
cm/f) nfms (סהמונ ShMWN) - Eight: In the sense of being fat or rich. [Also meaning thirty when written in the plural form - minfms] [df: hnwms hnms]KJV (147): eight, eighth, eighty, eightieth - Strongs: H8083 (שְׁמוֹנָה), H8084 (שְׁמוֹנִים)
hm ) nmsm (מסהמנ MShMN) - Fat: A place of fatness. KJV (7): fatness, fat, fattest - Strongs: H4924 (מִשְׁמָן)
bfm) inims (סהמיני ShMYNY) - Eighth: KJV (28): eighth - Strongs: H8066 (שְׁמִינִי)
Jeff Brenner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
שֶׁמֶן m. suff. שַׁמְנִי, plur. שְׁמָנִים
(1) fat, fatness, Psalms 109:24. מִשְׁתֵּה שׁמָנִים a feast of fat things, Isaiah 25:6, 10:27, וְחֻבַּל עֹל מִפְּנֵי שֶׁמֶן “and the yoke (of Israel) is broken because of fatness,” a metaphor taken from a fat bull that casts off and breaks the yoke (compare Deuteronomy 32:15; Hosea 4:16); also fruitfulness of the earth. גֵּיא שְׁמָנִים a very fertile valley, Isaiah 28:1.
(2) oil, Genesis 28:18. עֵץ שֶׁמֶן an oleaster (differing from זַיִת an olive tree), Nehemiah 8:15; 1 Kings 6:23.
(3) spiced oil, i.e. ointment, Psalms 133:2; Proverbs 21:17; Isaiah 1:6.
the Second Week after Epiphany