Shemen שֶׁ֫מֶן

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Shemen
שֶׁ֫מֶן
Transliterationshemen
Strong's numberH8081
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossoil
Occurrences193 in 176 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (36)

Shemen (Hebrew שֶׁ֫מֶן, Strong's H8081) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “oil”. It occurs 193 times in 176 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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) (metaph)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVoil (165), ointment (11), olive (4), ointments (3), oiled (2), things (2), fat (2), pine (1), fatness (1), anointing (1)
BSBoil (137), olive oil (22), olive (3), made with oil (2), than oil (2), like oil (2), your perfume (2), above the fertile (2), my oil (2), well as the oil (1), baked with fine oil (1), yourself with oil (1), and 13 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Shemen, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Hosea

Amos

Micah

Haggai

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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