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Fat tail

אַלְיָהStrong’s H0451

alyah (al-yah)

Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Alyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fat tail”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.

“Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:”
Exodus 29:22 KJV
Meaning
  1. Tail, fat-tail (of sheep-an Eastern delicacy)
How it's translated
  • the fat tail 4
  • and the fat tail 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 4
  • Exodus 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

אַלְיָה alyah · fat tail

tail, fat-tail (of sheep-an Eastern delicacy)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.