STRONGS NUMBER H4220


Word Summary
meach: a fatling
Original Word: מֵחַ
Transliteration: meach
Phonetic Spelling: (may'-akh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a fatling
Meaning: fat, rich
Strong's Concordance
fatling one

From machah in the sense of greasing; fat; figuratively, rich -- fatling (one).

see HEBREW machah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4220. meach

[מֵחַ‎] noun [masculine] fatling (Phoenician מחfat (adjective ); Late Hebrew מֵיחָא‎ figurative of choice flour); — only plural absolute: מֵיחִים עֹלוֺתPsalm 66:15 burnt offerings of fatlings; so מֵחִיםIsaiah 5:17 ("" כְּבָשִׂים‎) according to Hi Du CheHpt (read חֳרָבוֺת‎ and strike out גָּרִים‎); most, fat ones, figurative for rich men.