Fatling
מְרִיאStrong’s H4806meri (me-ri)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meri is the Hebrew word usually translated “fatling”, “fatlings” and “fatlings of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.”
Meaning
- Well-fed, fatling
How it's translated
- and fatling 4
- and a fatling 1
- fatlings 1
- fatlings of 1
- fatlings your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Ezekiel 1
- Amos 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 1:9And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:
- 1 Kings 1:19And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
- 1 Kings 1:25For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.
- Isaiah 1:11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
- Isaiah 11:6The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
- Ezekiel 39:18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Hebrew dictionary
מְרִיא meri · fatling
well-fed, fatling
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.