shamen · rich, fat

What it means

shamen (שָׁמֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rich, fat”.

Abundant.

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. Producing much, or well fed and strong.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rich ×4
• fat ×2
• fertile ×2
• plentiful ×1
• robust ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 49:20

  From Asher rich will be his bread, and he will provide delicacies fit for a king.

• Numbers 13:20

  and what the land is like, whether it is rich or poor, whether there are trees in it or not. Be strong and take some of the fruit of the land.” Now the days were the days of the first ripe grapes.

• Judges 3:29

  They struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all robust and all men of valor; and not a man escaped.

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  And they found rich and good pasture, and the land was broad, quiet, and peaceful, for those who lived there before were from Ham.

• 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.

• Nehemiah 9:35

  And they, in their kingdom, and in your abundant goodness that you gave them, and in the wide and fertile land that you set before them, did not serve you, nor turn from their evil deeds.

• Isaiah 30:23

  And he will give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plentiful; your herds will graze on that day in a broad pasture.

• Ezekiel 34:14

  In good pasture I will feed them, and on the mountains of the height of Israel will be their fold; there they will lie down in a good fold, and in fat pasture they will graze on the mountains of Israel.

• Ezekiel 34:16

  The lost I will seek, and the strayed I will bring back, and the broken I will bind up, and the sick I will strengthen; but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them with judgment.

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrifices to his net and offers up in smoke to his dragnet, for by them his portion is rich and his food fat.