International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Fatness

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Fatness


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fat´nes (דּשׁן, deshen; πιότης, piótēs):

1. Literal

The translation of deshen (, “But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness?”; (of food)), “full of fatness”; of ḥēlebh, “fat,” “the best part,” “the marrow” (; ; , ); of mishmān, “fatness,” “fertility” (, “the fatness of the earth”; , “the fatness of his flesh”); of shemen, “fatness,” “oil” (); of piotēs, “fat,” “fatness” (, “partaker ... of the root of the fatness of the olive tree”).

2. Figurative

“Fatness” is used figuratively for the richness of God's goodness; as such it is the translation of deshen (“They shall be abundantly satisfied (margin “Hebrew watered”) with the fatness of thy house” (); “Thy paths drop fatness” (; compare ; ).

“With fatness” is supplied, the King James Version, “covered with fatness”; the Revised Version (British and American) has “become sleek”; for “The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” () the American Standard Revised Version has “by reason of fatness,” margin “Hebrew oil”; the English Revised Version as the King James Version, with margin as the American Standard Revised Version; the text is believed to be corrupt; Septuagint has “from your shoulders.”