Lexical Definition

‎אַלְיָה‎ ʼalyâh (al-yaw') fat tail ^H:N-F
from ‎אָלָה‎ (in the original sense of strength)

rump.

• the stout part, i.e. the fat tail of the Oriental sheep

1) tail, fat-tail (of sheep-an Eastern delicacy)

See Greek: ὀσφῦς

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַלְיָה‎ noun feminine fat tail of sheep, still accounted a delicacy in the East; (Mishna id. ᵑ7, ‎אַלְיְתָה‎, ‎אַלִּיתָא‎, etc.; Arabic , compare Fl^{TWB i. 418 a}) Exod 29:22; Lev 3:9; Lev 7:3; Lev 8:25 (all || ‎חֵ֫לֶב‎); Lev 9:19, probably also 1Sam 9:24 for ‎הֶעָלֶיהָ‎ see Gei Dr (compare Tristr^{Nat. Hist. Bib. ch. vi} Ri^{HWB Schafe} Smith^{Dict. Bib. Sheep}).

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