meri · fatted animal

What it means

meri (מְרִיא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fatted animal”.

A beast fattened for a meal or a special sacrifice.

How to say it

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

1. An animal carefully fattened for a feast or a sacrifice.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fatted animals ×3
• fattened animal ×2
• fattened animals ×2
• fatlings ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1

• 2 Samuel 6:13

  And it happened that when those carrying the ark of YHWH had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.

• 1 Kings 1:9

  And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, cattle, and fatted animals by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants.

• 1 Kings 1:19

  He has sacrificed oxen, fatted animals, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army; but Solomon your servant he has not invited.

• 1 Kings 1:25

  For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen, fatted animals, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, and the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest; and there they are, eating and drinking before him; and they have said, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

• Isaiah 1:11

  For what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says YHWH. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and of the fat of fattened animals; and in the blood of bulls and of lambs and of male goats I do not delight.

• Isaiah 11:6

  And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the young lion and the fattened animal together, and a little boy will lead them.

• Ezekiel 39:18

  The flesh of mighty men you will eat, and the blood of the chiefs of the earth you will drink — rams, lambs, and male goats, bulls, fatlings of Bashan all of them.

• Amos 5:22

  Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals I will not look at.