What does "Fat" mean in the Bible?

What does the Bible say about Fat?

i.e. VAT, the word employed in the Authorized Version to translate the Hebrew term yekeb, in (Joel 2:24; 3:13) The word commonly used for yekeb is “winepress” or “winefat,” and once “pressfat.” (Haggai 2:16) The “vats” appear to have been excavated out of the native rock of the hills on which the vineyards lay. The Hebrews distinguished between the suet or pure fat of an animal and the fat which was intermixed with the lean. (Nehemiah 8:10) Certain restrictions were imposed upon them in reference to the former; some parts of the suet, viz., about the stomach, the entrails, the kidneys, and the tail of a sheep, which grows to an excessive size in many eastern countries, and produces a large quantity of rich fat, were forbidden to be eaten in the case of animals offered to Jehovah in sacrifice. (Leviticus 3:3,9,17; 7:3,23) The ground of the prohibition was that the fat was the richest part of the animal, and therefore belonged to him. (Leviticus 3:16) The burning of the fat of sacrifices was particularly specified in each kind of offering.

What is the Hebrew word for Fat?

Where does Fat appear in the Bible?

Fat is referenced in 55 verses across 12 books. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.

• 1 Kings 8:64
• 1 Samuel 2:15
• 1 Samuel 2:16
• 1 Samuel 15:22
• 2 Chronicles 7:7
• 2 Chronicles 29:35
• 2 Chronicles 35:14
• Deuteronomy 32:38
• Exodus 23:18
• Exodus 29:13
• Exodus 29:22
• Ezekiel 34:3
• Ezekiel 39:19
• Ezekiel 44:7
• Genesis 45:18
• Isaiah 1:11
• Isaiah 34:6
• Isaiah 34:7
• Isaiah 43:24
• Judges 3:22
• Job 15:27
• Leviticus 3:3
• Leviticus 3:4
• Leviticus 3:9

What else appears in these passages?

These turn up in the same passages as Fat.