Fatling

A fatlin" is an animal, especially a young animal, fattened for slaughter. It is the tr° of three Heb. and one Greek word. (1) Miri', plu. Tniri'im, 2S 6", Is 11«, Ezk 39'^: which is elsewhere tr^ 'fat cattle' (RV 'fatlings'), 1 K !»•'»• 2»; 'fed beasts' (so RV), Is 1" ; 'fat beasts' (so RV), Am 5". (2) Mrhim, Ps 66"> : which else- where occurs only Is 5" tr'' 'fat ones,' AV and KV. (3) Mishnim, IS 15', which means 'seconds,' of a second, inferior sort (as AVm).

But that is plainly not the meaning here. Hence the text is generally amended into mashmanniin (D"j:jf?), whicli is found in Neh 8'", and means ' fat things,' 'delicacies' (EV 'the fat'). This is the read- ing followed by EV, and it has tlie support of Targ. Syr. and Arab. VSS. But Driver [Notes on Sam. p. 94) prefers to read hassh^nienim, which occurs (in the sing.) in Ezk 34" (and elsewhere), aiid is tr'' ' the fat.'

He then renders ' the best of the flocks and the herds, even the fat ones and the lambs' (Dlj.i) D'3?!f*n). (4) aiTurri (lit. 'fed with frain '), Mt 22^ ' my oxen and my fatlings are illed' (TindaJe's tr°; Wye. 'my bolis [bulls] and my volatUis [fowls],' alter Vulg. tauri mei et cUtilin). To tliose RV adds (5) blndh, Ezk 34' ' the fatlings ' for AV ' them that are fed ' : the word is an ad j . , and is tr^ ' fat ' in v.

* (' fat cattle ' AV and RV), it is the 'fat' kine of Pharaoh's dream (Gn 41). J. HASTINGS. FAOCHION Jth 13« 'she . . took Ao-vra his fauchion from thence,' and 16' ' the fauchion passed through his neck' (AV 1611 'fauchin,' RV 'scimitar'). The Greek is dxiydicTjs (in 16" A has dKixdMs, to which Hatch and Redpath give a sep. entry in their Concord to the Sept., but with a query), found only here. The d/t. , a word of Persian origin, is often used in Herodotus to describe a short sword.

See SwoRD. The Eng. word was originally the name of ' a broad sword more or less curved on the convex side ' ; but in later use and in poetry signified a sword of any kind. J. Hastings.