marbek · stall

What it means

marbek (מַרְבֵּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stall”.

Where cattle are fattened; "calf of the stall" is the fattened calf, kept for a special meal.

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. Pen where animals are made fat; well-fed calf.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stall ×3
• fattened ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Malachi×1

• 1 Samuel 28:24

  The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she hurried and sacrificed it; she took flour, kneaded it, and baked it into unleavened bread.

• Jeremiah 46:21

  Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like calves from the stall; for they too have turned back, they have fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

• Malachi 4:2

  But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings; and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.