דֶּשֶׁן
dešen
fatness
Strong's H1880NounHebrewTWOT 457a

דֶּשֶׁן (dešen) is a Hebrew noun meaning fatness. It appears 15 times in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1880).

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Same Hebrew root (TWOT 457a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 457a)fatness, fat ashes; fat, abundance, ashes
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

דֶּ֫שֶׁן noun, masculine: fatness, fat ashes

Strong's H1880 דֶּשֶׁן: the fat; abstractly fatness, i.e. (figuratively) abundance; specifically the (fatty) ashes of sacrifices
KJV:ashes, fatness.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 457: דָּשֵׁן dāšēn — be fat, grow fat; make fat, find, take away, clear away the fat ashes; be made fat; fatten, anoint, satisfy, remove, ashes; accept, take away the ashes

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 1:16Judges 9:91 Kings 13:3

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