Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; denominatively (from 1880) to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)
KJV Usage: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
דָּשֵׁן (da.shen) — to prosper. 1) to be fat, grow fat, become fat, become prosperous, anoint 1a) (Qal) of prosperity (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to make fat, anoint 1b2) to find fat (of offering-acceptable) 1b3) to take away ashes (from altar) 1c) (Pual) to be made fat 1d) (Hothpael) to fatten oneself (of Jehovah's sword)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · דֶּשֶׁן · דָּשֵׁן
Fat | verb qal
to grow fat = process by which the human body accumulates fat, ≈ which used to be regarded as the best part and associated with health and well-being
Fat | verb pi
to make fat = causative process by which an event causes the human body to accumulate fat, which used to be regarded as the best part and associated with health and well-being
Cover | verb hotpa'al
Collocation: דשׁן מֵחֵלֶב
to be covered with fat = process by which an object becomes covered with fat
Cover | verb pi
to anoint = causative action by which humans covers objects with a fatty substance
Mixed | verb pu'al
Collocation: דשׁן מֵחֵלֶב
to be saturated with fat = process by which a substance becomes mixed with fat
Non-Whole | verb pi
to clear away the fat ashes = causative action by which humans remove the fat ashes from an object
Safe | verb pu'al
to be made fat > to prosper = process by which humans are caused to prosper in life, described as becoming fat
Willing | verb pi | ≈ זכר
to accept = action by which deities decide that an object is acceptable, as if containing fat
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
דָּשֵׁן vb. be fat, grow fat Qal fig. of Isr.’s prosperity
Pi. causat. make fat i.e. anoint, symbol of festivity and joy; of bodily effect of good news; find a burnt-offering fat = acceptable; elsewhere denom.;—take away, clear away the fat ashes (acc. of altar cleared)
Pu. pass. of causat. Pi. be made fat, of dust saturated
Hothp. of Yahweh’s sword:—it hath fattened itself
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