Fatling
מֵחַStrong’s H4220meach (me-ach)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meach is the Hebrew word usually translated “fatlings”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.”
Meaning
- Fatling, fat one
How it's translated
- fatlings 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מֵחַ meach · fatling
fatling, fat one
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fatling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FAT'LING, noun
[from fat.]
A lamb, kid or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; applied to quadrupeds whose flesh is used for food.
- “David sacrificed oxen and fatlings” 2 Samuel 6:13
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.