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שֶׁמֶן

shemen

sheh'-men

grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness

Rendered in the KJV as

anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, [phrase] pine.

  • 193
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 26 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 77
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 193 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 77

  • בַשֶּׁ֖מֶן16
  • שֶׁ֣מֶן14
  • וְשֶׁ֖מֶן9
  • שָֽׁמֶן׃8
  • בַשָּׁ֑מֶן7
  • הַשֶּׁ֖מֶן6
  • שָׁ֑מֶן6
  • בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן5
  • שֶׁ֖מֶן5
  • שֶׁ֔מֶן5
  • בַשֶּׁ֔מֶן4
  • בַּשָּֽׁמֶן׃4

and 65 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 35

  • with the oil46
  • the oil28
  • oil27
  • and oil22
  • [the] oil of16
  • oil of7
  • olive4
  • with [the] oil of3
  • with oil3
  • and like the oil2
  • and oil my2
  • and some of oil its2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 19

  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular50
  • noun · masculine singular33
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular28
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)24
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular20
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)9
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3
  • noun · masculine plural3
  • adjective · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 50
  • HNcmsa · 33
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 28
  • HNcmsc · 24
  • HC/Ncmsa · 20
  • HR/Ncmsc · 9
  • HR/Ncmsa · 6
  • HC/Ncmsc · 4
  • HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3fs · 3
  • HNcmpa · 3
  • HAampa · 2
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs · 2

All 193, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus24 occurrences
Leviticus42 occurrences
Numbers34 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
1 Samuel3 occurrences
2 Samuel2 occurrences
1 Kings9 occurrences
2 Kings7 occurrences
1 Chronicles3 occurrences
2 Chronicles3 occurrences
Ezra1 occurrence
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther1 occurrence
Job1 occurrence
Psalms10 occurrences
Proverbs5 occurrences
Ecclesiastes3 occurrences
Song of Solomon3 occurrences
Isaiah11 occurrences
Jeremiah2 occurrences
Ezekiel16 occurrences
Hosea2 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).