# H8081 שֶׁמֶן

שֶׁמֶן (shemen), Strong’s H8081: grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness KJV: anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment…

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

KJV: anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, [phrase]…

Derived from [שָׁמַן shâman](https://besorah.bible/word/H8080) (to shine)

Occurs 193 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שֶׁ֫מֶן 192 n.m. fat, oil

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 28:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=18) — Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…
- [Genesis 35:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=14) — Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it…
- [Exodus 25:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=6) — oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
- [Exodus 27:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/27?v=20) — “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp…
- [Exodus 29:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=2) — unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine…
- [Exodus 29:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=7) — Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
- [Exodus 29:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=21) — You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his…
- [Exodus 29:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=23) — and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the…
- [Exodus 29:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/29?v=40) — and with the one lamb a tenth part of an efah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the…
- [Exodus 30:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=24) — and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin of olive oil.