Fatness
Fatness
fatnes (, deshen; , piotes):
1. Literal
The translation of deshen (Jdg 9:9, But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness?; Job 36:16 (of food)), full of fatness; of helebh, fat, the best part, the marrow (Job 15:27; Psa 73:7; Isa 34:6, Isa 34:7); of mishman, fatness, fertility (Gen 27:28, the fatness of the earth; Isa 17:4, the fatness of his flesh); of shemen, fatness, oil (Psa 109:24); of piotes, fat, fatness (Rom 11:17, partaker … of the root of the fatness of the olive tree).
2. Figurative
Fatness is used figuratively for the richness of God’s goodness; as such it is the translation of deshen (They shall be abundantly satisfied (margin Hebrew watered) with the fatness of thy house (Psa 36:8); Thy paths drop fatness (Psa 65:11; compare Isa 55:2; Jer 31:14).
With fatness is supplied, Deu 32:15 the King James Version, covered with fatness; the Revised Version (British and American) has become sleek; for The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (Isa 10:27) the American Standard Revised Version has by reason of fatness, margin Hebrew oil; the English Revised Version as the King James Version, with margin as the American Standard Revised Version; the text is believed to be corrupt; Septuagint has from your shoulders.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Fatness
from pion, “fat,” from a root, pi—, signifying “swelling,” is used metaphorically in Rom 11:17. The gentile believer had become a sharer in the spiritual life and blessing bestowed by Divine covenant upon Abraham and his descendants as set forth under the figure of “the root of (not ‘and’) the fatness of the olive tree.”