H2459 Hebrew

חֶלֶב

cheleb (kheh'-leb)
fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part

KJV Translations of H2459

[idiom] best, fat(-ness), [idiom] finest, grease, marrow.

Word Origin & Derivation

or חֵלֶב; from an unused root meaning to be fat;

H2459 in the King James Bible

69 verses
Deuteronomy 32:14 חֵ֖לֶב

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

Deuteronomy 32:38 חֵ֤לֶב

Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

Exodus 23:18 חֵֽלֶב

Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

Exodus 29:13 הַחֵ֖לֶב

And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

Exodus 29:22 הַחֵ֙לֶב֙

Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:

Ezekiel 34:3 הַחֵ֤לֶב

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

Ezekiel 39:19 חֵ֣לֶב

And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

Ezekiel 44:7 חֵ֣לֶב

In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

Ezekiel 44:15 חֵ֣לֶב

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

Genesis 4:4 וּמֵֽחֶלְבֵהֶ֑ן

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: