Word

חָנַט

chânaṭ · H2590 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

Causative action by which plants form fruits (to bring forth (fruits), to produce (fruits))

Examples
Song of Solomon 2:13 ‘The fig tree has ripened its fruit, And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, And come along!’”
to embalm

Causative action by which humans process the body of other humans to preserve it from decaying, which is done with the help of spices

Examples
Genesis 50:2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110 years; and they embalmed him and placed him in a coffin in Egypt.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

רָפָאto heal 1
תְּאֵןfig tree 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

אָבfather 1
יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
פַּגearly fig 1
וֹhim 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יוֹםday, time 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Stage002001001060: The word denotes the process of embalming a body, a set procedure carried out over a fixed period, as in Genesis 50:2-3's account of Joseph's physicians embalming Jacob over forty days.
Whole002003001020: The word can denote ripening or coming to fullness, as in Song of Solomon 2:13's description of the fig tree that has ripened its fruit.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2590. chanat חָנַט verb spice, make spicy, embalm (Late Hebrew id., bud, blossom; Arabic…

H2590. chanat
חָנַט verb spice, make spicy, embalm (Late Hebrew id., bud, blossom; Arabic become mature, II. prepare for burial, spices for a corpse; embalmer, Dozyi, 322 after PS1320; Aramaic , חֲנַט embalm; so Ethiopic (loan-word Di110)); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular חָֽנְטָה Son 2:13; Imperfect3masculine plural וַיַּחַנְטוּ Gen 50:2, Gen 50:26; Infinitive construct לַחֲנֹט Gen 50:2; —
1 spice, make spicy ח ׳הַתְּאֵנָה פַגֶּיהָ Son 2:13 the fig-tree spiceth its figs, so VB De in translation (Ew De in notes Öttli and others prefer reddeneth, on account of spring season, compare the less common and perhaps secondary sense in Arabic become red (of leather) Lane657a).
2 embalm, followed by accusative of person Gen 50:2 (twice in verse) (performed by הָרֹפְאִים), Gen 50:26.
חֲנֻטִים noun [masculine] plural abstract embalming, only הַח ׳יְמֵי Gen 50:3 i.e. the days consumed in the embalming process = יוֺם אַרְבָּעִים see Di.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Stage1 occurrence Whole4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0