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Lexicon :: Strong's H8081 - šemen

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שֶׁמֶן
Transliteration
šemen
Pronunciation
sheh'-men
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2410c

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁמֶן shemen, sheh'-men; from H8080; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness:—anointing, × fat (things), × fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, pine.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 193x

The KJV translates Strong's H8081 in the following manner: oil (165x), ointment (14x), olive (4x), oiled (2x), fat (2x), things (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 193x
The KJV translates Strong's H8081 in the following manner: oil (165x), ointment (14x), olive (4x), oiled (2x), fat (2x), things (2x), miscellaneous (4x).
  1. fat, oil

    1. fat, fatness

    2. oil, olive oil

      1. as staple, medicament or unguent

      2. for anointing

    3. fat (of fruitful land, valleys) (metaph)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁמֶן shemen, sheh'-men; from H8080; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness:—anointing, × fat (things), × fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, pine.
STRONGS H8081: Abbreviations
שֶׁ֫מֶן 192 noun masculine 2 Kings 20:13 (on apparently feminine Songs 1:3 compare AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 99, 106) fat, oil; — שׁ׳ absolute Genesis 28:18 +, construct Leviticus 8:2 +; שָׁ֑׳ 2 Kings 4:6 +; suffix שַׁמְנִי Hosea 2:7 +, etc.; plural שְׁמָנִים Amos 6:6 +; suffix שְׁמָנֶיךָ Songs 1:3, נַיִח - Songs 4:10; —
1. fat, fatness: קֶרֶן בֶּןשֿׁ׳ Isaiah 5:1 (of fertile slope); plural גֵּיאשְֿׁמָנִים Isaiah 28:1, 4; of food (in figurative) Isaiah 25:6 (twice in verse); literal כְּשָׂרִי כָּחַשׁ מִשָּׁ֑מֶן Psalm 109:24 (compare צוֺם Psalm 109:24a), compare שׁ׳מִפְּנֵי Isaiah 10:27 (in figurative, si vera lectio, meaning obscure; most now emend by conjecture; RSJPH xili (1885), 62 עָלָה מִצָּפוֺן שֹׁרֵד [see also II. חבל], joining to Isaiah 10:28; Du Marti has gone up from Pene-Rimmon [??], compare Di-Kit).
2.
a. oil, specifically olive-oil, as rich product Deuteronomy 8:8 + (see זַיִת); hence עֵץ שׁ׳ Isaiah 41:19 oil-tree, usually explained as wild olive, oleaster, so Nehemiah 8:15 (|| וַיִת), עֲצֵי שׁ׳ oleaster-wood 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32, 33; once הַמֹּר שׁ׳ Esther 2:2 (see מֹר; מ׳ also in holy anointing oil Exodus 30:23).
b. שׁ׳ as staple (codiment) Numbers 11:8 (J; see לשׁד), of value 1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16; 2 Kings 2:4, 6, 7 + 4 times; symbol of plenty Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:24; Job 29:6; ascribed (fassely) to gift of Baals Hosea 2:7; as royal treasure 2 Kings 20:13 = Isaiah 39:2, compare 1 Kings 5:25 (כָּ תִית שׁ׳, see כ׳) = 2 Chronicles 2:9; 2 Chronicles 2:14 + 3 times; tribute Hosea 12:2, article of trade Ezekiel 27:17; odoriferous Proverbs 27:9; Songs 1:3; Songs 4:10, רוֺקֵחַ שׁ׳ Ecclesiastes 10:1, so (figurative) Songs 1:3; Ecclesiastes 7:1; Proverbs 27:16 is corrupt, see Toy; sign of luxury Ezekiel 16:13; Proverbs 21:17, of prosperity Ezekiel 16:20.
c. שׁ׳ as medicament Isaiah 1:6; as unguent, for shield 2 Samuel 1:21, person Amos 6:6; Micah 6:15; Deuteronomy 28:40; Ezekiel 16:9; Esther; Psalm 92:11; Psalm 104:15, not for mourner 2 Samuel 14:2; on head token of happiness Ecclesiastes 9:8, of hospitality, ראֹשִׁי דִּמַּנְתָּ בַּמֹּ׳ Psalm 23:5 (figurative), in simile Psalm 133:2; Psalm 141:5.
d. for anointing king, הַשּׁ׳ פַּךְ 1 Samuel 10:1; 2 Kings 9:1, 3, compare 2 Kings 9:6, with קֶרֶן 1 Samuel 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39; compare קָדְשִׁי מְשַׁחְתִּיו בְּשׁ׳ Psalm 89:21.
e. in various figures of joy שָׂשׂוֺן שׁ׳ Isaiah 61:3; Psalm 45:8; soft words Psalm 55:22; Proverbs 5:3; as penetrating Psalm 109:18; as clear, transparent Ezekiel 32:14.
f. used in primitive worship, poured on stone Genesis 28:18 (E), Genesis 35:14 (J).
g. in later ritual: for anointing priests, tabernacle, altar utensils, etc. (P), made of various ingredients, וַיִת שׁ׳ among them, Exodus 30:24, הַמִּשְׁתָה שׁ׳ Exodus 25:6; Leviticus 8:2, 10, 12 + 11 times; מִשְׁחַתקֹֿדֶשׁ שׁ׳ Exodus 30:25 (twice in verse) + 2 times; י׳ מ׳ שׁ׳ Leviticus 10:7, אֱםהָיו מ׳ שׁ׳ Leviticus 21:12; הקּ׳ שׁ׳ Numbers 35:25; שׁ׳ alone Leviticus 14:10 + 12 times Leviticus 14; for lighting Exodus 25:6 + 6 times + זַיִת זָח כָּ חִית שׁ׳ Exodus 27:20; Leviticus 24:2 (see כָּ תִית); poured upon מִנְחָה Leviticus 2:1 + 5 times, compare Leviticus 5:11; Numbers 5:15; smeared (see מָשַׁח) upon wafers Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4 +, and cakes (or mixed in the making? compare בָּלַל) Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 2:4, 5 +, so סֹלֶת בַּשׁ׳ Leviticus 2:7 etc. (approximately + 45 times in all), חַלַּת לֶחֶם שׁ׳ Exodus 29:23; Leviticus 8:26.
h. for use in temple 1 Chronicles 9:29.
i. for תְּרוּמָה in Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 45:14 (twice in verse) + 7 times in Ezekiel 45 and 46.
† j. efficacy denied Micah 6:7
† k. offered to idols Isaiah 57:9; Ezekiel 16:18, 19; Ezekiel 23:41. — See MacalisterHast. DB OIL ARSKEncy. Bib. OIL.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

28:18; 28:18; 35:14

Exodus

25:6; 25:6; 27:20; 29:2; 29:2; 29:23; 30:23; 30:24; 30:25

Leviticus

2:1; 2:4; 2:4; 2:5; 2:7; 5:11; 8:2; 8:2; 8:10; 8:12; 8:26; 10:7; 14; 14:10; 21:12; 24:2

Numbers

5:15; 11:8; 35:25

Deuteronomy

8:8; 28:40; 32:13; 33:24

1 Samuel

10:1; 16:1; 16:13

2 Samuel

1:21; 14:2

1 Kings

1:39; 6:23; 6:31; 6:32; 6:33; 17:12; 17:14; 17:16

2 Kings

2:4; 2:6; 2:7; 4:6; 9:1; 9:3; 9:6; 20:13; 20:13

1 Chronicles

9:29

2 Chronicles

2:9; 2:14

Nehemiah

8:15

Esther

2:2

Job

29:6

Psalms

23:5; 45:8; 55:22; 89:21; 92:11; 104:15; 109:18; 109:24; 109:24; 133:2; 141:5

Proverbs

5:3; 21:17; 27:9; 27:16

Ecclesiastes

7:1; 9:8; 10:1

Song of Songs

1:3; 1:3; 1:3; 1:3; 4:10; 4:10

Isaiah

1:6; 5:1; 10:27; 10:28; 25:6; 28:1; 28:4; 39:2; 41:19; 57:9; 61:3

Ezekiel

16:9; 16:13; 16:18; 16:19; 16:20; 23:41; 27:17; 32:14; 45:14

Hosea

2:7; 2:7; 12:2

Amos

6:6; 6:6

Micah

6:7; 6:15

H8081

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8081 matches the Hebrew שֶׁמֶן (šemen),
which occurs 193 times in 176 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (1Ki 6:31–Isa 39:2)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:31 -

And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive H8081 wood, the lintel, and five-sided doorposts.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:32 - So he made two doors of olive H8081 wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he overlaid the cherubim and the palm trees with gold.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:33 -

So too he made for the entrance of the main room four-sided doorposts of olive H8081 wood,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - But she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have no food, only a handful of flour in the [fn]bowl and a little oil H8081 in the jar; and behold, I am gathering [fn]a few sticks so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, so that we may [fn]eat it and die.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:14 - “For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘The [fn]bowl of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil H8081 become empty, until the day that the LORD provides rain on the face of the earth.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:16 - The [fn]bowl of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil H8081 become empty, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil H8081.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:6 - When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” But he said to her, “There [fn]are no more containers.” Then the oil H8081 stopped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - So she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go, sell the oil H8081 and pay your debt, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 -

Now Elisha the prophet summoned one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “[fn]Get ready and take this flask of oil H8081 in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - “Then take the flask of oil H8081 and pour it on his head, and say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee, and do not wait.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:6 - He then got up and went into the house, and the prophet’s servant poured the oil H8081 on his head and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:13 - And Hezekiah listened to [fn]them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the balsam oil, the [fn]scented oil H8081, the house of his armor, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:29 - Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary, and over the finely milled flour, the wine, the olive H8081 oil H8081, the frankincense, and the balsam oil.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:40 - Moreover, those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil H8081, oxen, and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:28 - Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive and sycamore trees in the [fn]Shephelah; and Joash was responsible for the stores of oil H8081.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - “Now behold, I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, [fn]twenty thousand kors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, [fn]twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil H8081.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:15 - “Now then, let my lord send his servants wheat and barley, oil H8081 and wine, of which he has spoken.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:11 - He also strengthened the fortresses and put officers in them and supplies of food, oil H8081, and wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food, drink, and oil H8081 to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea at Joppa, according to the permission they had [fn]from Cyrus king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - And that they were to proclaim and circulate a proclamation in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and [fn]wild H8081 olive H8081 branches, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of other trees with thick branches, to make booths, as it is written.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 -

Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beauty treatment were completed as follows: six months with oil H8081 of myrrh and six months with balsam oil and the cosmetics for women

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:6 -

When my steps were bathed in cream,

And the rock poured out streams of oil H8081 for me!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 -

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

You [fn]have anointed my head with oil H8081;

My cup overflows.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:7 -

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;

Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You

With the oil H8081 of joy above Your companions.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:21 -

His [fn]speech was smoother than butter,

But his heart was war;

His words were softer than oil H8081,

Yet they were drawn swords.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:20 -

“I have found My servant David;

With My holy oil H8081 I have anointed him,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:10 -

But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;

I have [fn]been anointed with fresh oil H8081.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:15 -

And wine, which makes a human heart cheerful,

So that he makes his face gleam with oil H8081,

And [fn]food, which sustains a human heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:18 -

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,

And it entered [fn]his body like water,

And like oil H8081 into his bones.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 -

My knees [fn]are weak from fasting,

And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness H8081.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 133:2 -

It is like the precious oil H8081 on the head,

Running down upon the beard,

As on Aaron’s beard,

The oil which ran down upon the edge of his robes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:5 -

May the righteous strike me with mercy and discipline me;

It is oil H8081 for the head;

My head shall not refuse it,

For my prayer is still against their evil deeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:3 -

For the lips of an [fn]adulteress drip honey,

And her [fn]speech is smoother than oil H8081;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:17 -

One who loves pleasure will become a poor person;

One who loves wine and oil H8081 will not become rich.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:20 -

There is precious treasure and oil H8081 in the home of the wise,

But a foolish person swallows it up.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:9 -

Oil H8081 and perfume make the heart glad,

And a [fn]person’s advice is sweet to his friend.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:16 -

He who would [fn]restrain her [fn]restrains the wind,

And [fn]grasps oil H8081 with his right hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 -

A good name is better than good [fn]oil H8081,

And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - See that your clothes are white all the time, and that there is no lack of oil H8081 on your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 -

Dead flies turn a perfumer’s oil H8081 rancid, so a little foolishness is more [fn]potent than wisdom and honor.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:3 -

“Your oils H8081 have a pleasing fragrance,

Your name is like [fn]purified oil H8081;

Therefore the [fn]young women love you.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 -

“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!

How much [fn]sweeter is your love than wine,

And the fragrance of your oils H8081

Than that of all kinds of balsam oils!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 -

From the sole of the foot even to the head

There is nothing healthy in it,

Only bruises, slashes, and raw wounds;

Not pressed out nor bandaged,

Nor softened with oil H8081.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 -

Let me sing now for my beloved

A song of my beloved about His vineyard.

My beloved had a vineyard on [fn]a fertile H8081 hill.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:27 - So it will be on that day, that [fn]his burden will be removed from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of fatness H8081.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:6 -

Now the LORD of armies will prepare a [fn]lavish H8081 banquet for all peoples on this mountain;

A banquet of [fn]aged wine, [fn]choice H8081 pieces with marrow,

And [fn]refined, aged wine.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 -

Woe to the proud crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim,

And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile H8081 valley

Of those who are [fn]overcome with wine!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 -

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the [fn]fertile H8081 valley,

Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to the summer,

Which [fn]one sees,

And [fn]as soon as it is in his [fn]hand,

He swallows it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:2 - Hezekiah [fn]was pleased, and let them see all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the balsam oil, the excellent olive H8081 oil H8081, his entire armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his realm that Hezekiah did not let them see.

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