שֶׁמֶן
shemen · sheh'-men
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8080 (שָׁמַן);
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
- grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed)
- figuratively, richness
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, [phrase] pine.
Letters
- 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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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)
to consume, to destroy › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
To consume, to destroy of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֶׁמֶן 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
193 occurrences · 193 OT · 0 NT · 77 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- with oil43 · 25%
- oil37 · 22%
- of oil28 · 17%
- and oil13 · 8%
- of the oil6 · 4%
- ointment5 · 3%
- the oil4 · 2%
- and of oil3 · 2%
- of olive3 · 2%
- and the oil3 · 2%
- of oiled2 · 1%
- no oil2 · 1%
- than oil2 · 1%
- ointments2 · 1%
- with ointment2 · 1%
- of fat things2 · 1%
- of the fat2 · 1%
- thee with oil2 · 1%
- mine oil2 · 1%
- it an oil1 · 1%
- with the oil1 · 1%
- thereof, and the oil1 · 1%
- thereof, and of the oil1 · 1%
- thereof, and part of the oil1 · 1%
- and of the oil1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
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.