דָּשֵׁן
dâshên · daw-shane'
to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; also denominatively (from H1880 (דֶּשֶׁן))
to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
- to be fat
- transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat)
- specifically, to anoint
- figuratively, to satisfy
- to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to consume, to destroy › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in that works to consume, to destroy of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּשֵׁן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- shall be made fat3 · 25%
- to receive his ashes1 · 8%
- and they shall take away the ashes1 · 8%
- themselves, and waxen fat1 · 8%
- and accept1 · 8%
- thou anointest1 · 8%
- maketh1 · 8%
- fat1 · 8%
- it is made fat1 · 8%
- made fat1 · 8%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.