Topic
Fat
43 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 45:18Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
- Exodus 23:18ISBE · Nave Offered in sacrifice
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
- Leviticus 3:3–5Easton · Nave Offered in sacrifice
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the…
- Leviticus 3:9–11Easton · Nave Offered in sacrifice
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the…
- Leviticus 3:16ISBE · Nave Belonged to the Lord
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD’s.
- Leviticus 3:17ISBE · Nave Forbidden as food
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Leviticus 8:25Easton · Nave Offered in sacrifice
And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
- Psalms 81:16Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
- Joel 2:24Easton · Smith
And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
- Haggai 2:16Easton · Smith
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- Genesis 4:4Easton
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
- Genesis 49:20Nave FIGURATIVE
¶ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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- Exodus 29:13–22 Easton
- Exodus 29:13 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Exodus 29:22 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 1:8 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 3:14–16 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 4:8 Easton
- Leviticus 4:8–10 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 7:3 Easton
- Leviticus 7:3–5 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 7:23 Nave Forbidden as food
- Leviticus 8:16 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 8:26 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 10:15 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Leviticus 17:6 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Numbers 18:12 Easton
- Numbers 18:17 Easton
- Deuteronomy 32:15 ISBE
- Deuteronomy 32:38 Nave Idolatrous sacrifices of
- 1 Samuel 2:15 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- 1 Samuel 2:16 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Psalms 17:10 Easton
- Psalms 37:20 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Psalms 92:14 ISBE
- Psalms 119:70 ISBE
- Psalms 150:4 Easton
- Proverbs 11:25 ISBE
- Proverbs 13:4 ISBE
- Isaiah 25:6 Nave FIGURATIVE
- Isaiah 43:24 Nave Offered in sacrifice
- Isaiah 63:2 Easton
- Joel 3:13 Smith
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 16 references
(Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel’s sacrifice (Gen. 4:4). It sometimes denotes the best of any production (Gen. 45:18; Num. 18:12; Ps. 81:16; 147:47). The fat of sacrifices was to be burned (Lev. 3:9-11; 4:8; 7:3; 8:25; Num. 18:17. Comp. Ex. 29:13-22; Lev. 3:3-5).
It is used figuratively for a dull, stupid state of mind (Ps 17:10).
In Joel 2:24 the word is equivalent to “vat,” a vessel. The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered “wine-fat” and “press-fat” (Hag. 2:16; Isa. 63:2).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
(chelebh, chelebh): The layer of subcutaneous fat and the compact suet surrounding the viscera and imbedded in the entrails, which, like the blood, was forbidden as food in the Mosaic code (Le 3:17). It was to be sacrificed to God by being burnt upon the altar (Le 3:16; 30). This had to be done on the very day on which a beast had been slaughtered, to remove temptation from the Israelite to use it otherwise (Ex 23:18). The law was probably a sanitary restriction, for, at an early date, leprosy, scrofula and disfiguring cutaneous diseases were thought to be caused by the use of fat as food. It was, moreover, an important pedagogical provision teaching the idea of self-denial, and the maxim that the richest and best meat of the edible animal belonged to Yahweh.
See also FATLING; FOWL, FATTED.
The expression "fat" is often used in figurative senses, e.g. abundant, exuberant, lusty, fertile, robust, outwardly successful (De 32:15; Ps 92:14 the King James Version; Ps 119:70; Pr 11:25; 13:4, etc.).
H. L. E. Luering
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 27 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.