shaman · grow fat

What it means

shaman (שָׁמַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow fat”.

Become thick.

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. Put on weight; make the heart dull.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grew fat ×3
• Make fat ×1
• They have grown fat ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 32:15

  And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked —you grew fat, you grew thick, you were covered with fat— and he forsook Eloah who made him and dishonored the Rock of his salvation.

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Isaiah 6:10

  Make fat the heart of this people, and make heavy its ears, and blind its eyes, lest it see with its eyes, and hear with its ears, and its heart understand, and it turn back and be healed.”

• Jeremiah 5:28

  They have grown fat, they are sleek; they also go beyond the deeds of evil; the cause they do not plead, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the justice of the needy they do not defend.

And 1 more times.