אָבַס
avas · fatten
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H75 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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avas (אָבַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fatten”.
Feed an animal well so that it grows fat. As a participle, "fattened."
How to say it
a·vas
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Well fed until plump.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 4:23
ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and fattened fowl.
- Proverbs 15:17
Better is a ration of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox and hatred with it.