חֵלֶב chelev

Hebrew word for “fat” · Strong’s H2459 · used 92 times in 69 verses

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Meaning

1) fat; 1a) fat (of humans); 1b) fat (of beasts); 1c) choicest, best part, abundance (of products of the land)

How it is translated

Glosses given for chelev in context, with how often each is used:

• fat 68
• fats 13
• best 7
• some of fats 1
• like the fat 1
• more than the fat 1
• like fat 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 3 (8), Leviticus 7 (8), Leviticus 4 (6), Numbers 18 (5), Leviticus 9 (4), Leviticus 8 (3), Exodus 29 (2), Deuteronomy 32 (2), 1 Samuel 2 (2), Isaiah 34 (2)

Forms

• החלב 31
• חלב 20
• חלבו 7
• החלבים 7
• מחלב 7
• חלבי 4
• וחלב 4
• כחלב 2
• חלבה 2
• חלבהן 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chelev more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כִּלְיָה kilyah “kidney” 13
• קָטַר qatar “to offer” 16
• יֹתֶרֶת yoteret “lobe” 11
• כָּבֵד kaved “liver” 11
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 17
• זֶבַח zevach “sacrifice” 12
• דָּם dam “blood” 13
• שֶׁלֶם shelem “peace offering” 10
• אִשֶּׁה ishshah “food offering” 9
• כֶּסֶל kesel “loin” 6
• אַלְיָה alyah “fat tail” 5
• קֶרֶב qerev “entrails” 9

Key verses

The verses using chelev that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 4:4 — 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:
• Exodus 29:13 — And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn…
• Leviticus 3:16 — 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 3:17 — It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
• Leviticus 4:31 — And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for…
• Leviticus 4:35 — And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon…
• Leviticus 9:24 — And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and…
• 1 Samuel 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than…
• Psalms 63:5 — My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
• Isaiah 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight…
• Ezekiel 44:7 — In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,…
• Ezekiel 44:15 — But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.