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Strong's #4806: mriy' (pronounced mer-ee')

from 4754 in the sense of grossness, through the idea of domineering (compare 4756); stall-fed; often (as noun) a beeve:--fat (fed) beast (cattle, -ling).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

merı̂y'

1) well-fed, fatling

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H4754 in the sense of grossness, through the idea of domineering (compare H4756)



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

2 Samuel 6:13: "paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings."
1 Kings 1:9: "slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which"
1 Kings 1:19: "And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons"
1 Kings 1:25: "this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all"
Isaiah 1:11: "of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks,"
Isaiah 11:6: "the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead"
Ezekiel 39:18: "and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan."
Amos 5:22: "accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts."









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