To fatten
אָבַסStrong’s H0075avas (a-vas)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avas is the Hebrew word usually translated “fattened”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.”
Meaning
- To feed, fatten(Qal) fattened (passive participle)
How it's translated
- fattened 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
אָבַס avas · to fatten
1) to feed, fatten 1a) (Qal) fattened (passive participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fatten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAT'TEN, verb transitive
fat'n.
- To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.
- To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
- To feed grossly; to fill.
All definitions and other forms of “fatten”
FAT'TEN, verb intransitive
fat'n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.