Category:Fatling

Fat"ling, n. Etym: [Fat + -ling.]

Defn: A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Samuel 6:13.

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Fatling - (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Samuel 6:13; Isaiah 11:6; Ezekiel 39:18. Compare Matthew 22:4, where word used in the original, sitistos, means literally "corn-fed;" i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Psalms 66:15 (Heb. meah, meaning "marrowy," "fat," a species of sheep). (3.) 1 Samuel 15:9 (Heb. mishneh, meaning "the second," and hence probably "cattle of a second quality," or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autumnal lambs, and therefore of less value).