Definition

to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)

Etymology

a primitive root; also denominatively (from H1880 (דֶּשֶׁן))

Where the KJV renders it

• accept
• anoint
• take away the (receive) ashes (from)
• make (wax) fat

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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