Bible word study

Mashman (Strong’s H4924): Meaning in the Bible

Mashman (מַשְׁמָן) is the Hebrew word numbered H4924 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as fat, i.e. (literally and abstractly) fatness; but usually (figuratively and concretely) a rich dish, a fertile field, a robust man. In the King James Bible it is translated fat (one, -ness, -test, -test place)..

• Original wordמַשְׁמָן
• Transliterationmashmân
• Pronunciationmash-mawn'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4924
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H8080;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Mashman appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mashman (H4924) stands behind 7 English renderings in 7 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (2), Isaiah (2), Nehemiah (1).

How the King James Bible renders Mashman, by count

• fatness3 of 7 (43 percent)
• fat1 of 7 (14 percent)
• fattest1 of 7 (14 percent)
• ones1 of 7 (14 percent)
• places1 of 7 (14 percent)

Three places to read Mashman

• Genesis 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
• Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
• Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mashman in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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