דָּשֵׁן dâshên — to be fat
Translated in the KJV as accept, anoint, take away the ashes, make fat.
a primitive root; also denominatively (from H1880); to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices).
dâshên in each stem
Pi'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Infinitive construct 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Pu'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
Qal (Pa'al)
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Hotpa'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›