Strong's #8081: shemen (pronounced sheh'-men)
from 8080; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness:--anointing, X fat (things), X fruitful, oil((-ed)), ointment, olive, + pine.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shemen
1) fat, oil
1a) fat, fatness
1b) oil, olive oil
1b1) as staple, medicament or unguent
1b2) for anointing
1c) fat (of fruitful land, valleys) (metaphorically)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H8080
Usage:
This word is used 193 times:
Numbers 29:14: "And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock"
Numbers 35:25: "of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil."
Deuteronomy 8:8: "and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;"
Deuteronomy 28:40: "thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast"
Deuteronomy 32:13: "and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;"
Deuteronomy 33:24: "acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil."
1 Samuel 10:1: "took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed"
1 Samuel 16:1: "him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send"
1 Samuel 16:13: "took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit"
2 Samuel 1:21: "of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil."
2 Samuel 14:2: "mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that"
1 Kings 1:39: "took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed"
1 Kings 5:11: "and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram"
1 Kings 6:23: "he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high."
1 Kings 6:31: "of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part"
1 Kings 6:32: "The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims"
1 Kings 6:33: "he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part"
1 Kings 17:12: "a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold,"
1 Kings 17:14: "waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD"
1 Kings 17:16: "not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which"
2 Kings 4:2: "in the house, save a pot of oil."
2 Kings 4:6: "unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed."
2 Kings 4:7: "Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live"
2 Kings 9:1: "thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead:"
2 Kings 9:3: "Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus"
2 Kings 9:6: "and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus"
2 Kings 20:13: "and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that"
1 Chronicles 9:29: "of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices."
1 Chronicles 12:40: "meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly:"
1 Chronicles 27:28: "the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:"
2 Chronicles 2:10: "and twenty thousand baths of oil."
2 Chronicles 2:15: "Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken"
2 Chronicles 11:11: "captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine."
Ezra 3:7: "and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar"
Nehemiah 8:15: "unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle"
Esther 2:12: "so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh,"
Job 29:6: "and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;"
Psalms 23:5: "of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
Psalms 45:7: "therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."
Psalms 55:21: "was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."
Psalms 89:20: "David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed"
Psalms 92:10: "like the horn of a unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil."
Psalms 104:15: "that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread"
Psalms 109:18: "so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones."
Psalms 109:24: "through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness."
Psalms 133:2: "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's"
Psalms 141:5: "me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for"
Proverbs 5:3: "as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
Proverbs 21:17: "man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."
Proverbs 21:20: "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up."
