HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4806
מְרִיא
me.ri — fatling
well-fed, fatling
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Fatling
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4220
מֵחַ
me.ach — fatling
fatling, fat one
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4619
σιτιστός
sitistos — fattened
σιτιστός, -ή, -όν (σιτίζω, to fatten) [in Sm.: Psa.22:13, Jer.46:21 * ;] = σιτευτός, fattened; as subst., pl., τὰ σ., fatlings: Mat.22:4.† (AS)
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(1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Sam. 6:13; Isa. 11:6; Ezek. 39:18. Comp. Matt. 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally “corn-fed;” i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Ps. 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning “marrowy,” “fat,” a species of sheep). (3.) 1 Sam. 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning “the second,” and hence probably “cattle of a second quality,” or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of less value).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.