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מֶרְקָחָה

merqâchâh · H4841 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. spices

    Spices that enhance the taste of food

    Examples

    Ezekiel 24:10 “Heap on the wood, kindle the fire, Cook the meat thoroughly And mix in the spices, And let the bones be burned up.

  2. ointment pot

    A container used for storing fragrant oils or ointments

    Examples

    Job 41:31 “He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Spices001002005014
The word denotes a pot of ointment, a spice-based preparation used for perfuming or anointing.
Containers001003001001003
The word denotes the pot or vessel that holds the ointment, a container for the prepared spice.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

רָקַח râqach · H7543 · to mix (spices), to mix ointment · 8×מִרְקַחַת mirqachath · H4842 · ointment mixture · 3×מֶרְקָחָהmerqâchâh · H4841רֹקַח rôqach · H7545 · mix, blend, compound · 2×מֶרְקָח merqâch · H4840 · aromatic herbs · 1×רֶקַח reqach · H7544 · spiced · 1×רַקָּח raqqâch · H7546 · perfumer · 1×רַקֻּחַ raqquach · H7547 · aromatic herbs · 1×רַקָּחָה raqqâchâh · H7548 · perfumer · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4841. merqachah מֶרְקָחָה noun feminine 1. ointment-pot, in which ointment is…
H4841. merqachah
מֶרְקָחָה noun feminine 1. ointment-pot, in which ointment is compounded, Job 41:23 (figurative).
2 spice-seasoning (?); as accusative of congnate meaning with verb see v
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Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Spices1 occurrenceContainers1 occurrence

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

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