# H1878 דָּשֵׁן

דָּשֵׁן (dâshên), Strong’s H1878: to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices) KJV: accept, anoint…

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*dâshên* — to be fat; transitively, to fatten (or regard as fat); specifically to anoint; figuratively, to satisfy; to remove (fat) ashes (of sacrifices)

KJV: accept, anoint, take away the (receive) ashes (from), make (wax) fat.

Derived from [דֶּשֶׁן deshen](https://besorah.bible/word/H1880) (the fat)

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 27:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=3) — You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You…
- [Numbers 4:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=13) — “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
- [Deuteronomy 31:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/31?v=20) — For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have…
- [Isaiah 34:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/34?v=6) — The LORD’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the…
- [Isaiah 34:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/34?v=7) — The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with…
- [Psalms 20:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/20?v=4) — remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.
- [Psalms 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/23?v=5) — You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
- [Proverbs 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/11?v=25) — The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
- [Proverbs 13:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/13?v=4) — The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
- [Proverbs 15:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/15?v=30) — The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.