אַלְיָה
alya · fat tail
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H451 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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alya (אַלְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fat tail”.
The thick, fatty tail of a certain breed of sheep.
How to say it
al·ya
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
- The thick, fatty rump of a kind of sheep.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Exodus 29:22
You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,
- Leviticus 3:9
From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 7:3
All its fat he shall present from it: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
- Leviticus 8:25
He took the fat, the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and their fat, and the right thigh.
- Leviticus 9:19
and the fat portions from the ox and from the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver;