נְכֹאת
nᵉkôʼth · H5219 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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gum tragacanth
A viscous substance secreted by the Astragalus plant, used as medicine and as an ingredient in food products
ExamplesGenesis 37:25 Then they sat down to eat a meal. But as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying labdanum resin, balsam, and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.
Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a gift, a little balsam and a little honey, labdanum resin and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
How it’s used In 1 role
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
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- סַם çam · H5561 · fragrant spices
- Both words denote aromatic or fragrant substances used as spices.
In the other Testament 1 word
- θυμίαμα thymíama · G2368 · incense, to offer incense, to burn incense
- Greek θυμίαμα denotes incense or fragrant powder burned in worship, directly rendering Hebrew נְכֹאת (aromatic spices/gum resins) in the LXX contexts where spicery substances are referenced for ritual or commercial purposes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spices001002005014
- The word names an aromatic spice carried among the goods in the caravan of Ishmaelite traders that buys Joseph (Genesis 37:25) and among the gifts Jacob sends to Egypt (Genesis 43:11), tying the word to a traded fragrant substance.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5219. nekoth נְכאֹת noun feminine a spice, (usually understood of tragacanth gum,…
נְכאֹת noun feminine a spice, (usually understood of tragacanth gum, exuding from astralagus bush, DiGen 27:25 and references; NowArchaeology i. 64 (and 249); compare also Löw§ 24; but = Arabic = summitas rubicunda sive flores plantae (i.e. a certain plant, Frey), according to HomAufsätze 4); — absolute ׳נ Gen 37:25 ( + לּט צְרִי, as merchandise), Gen 43:11 (+ id., also שְׁקֵדִים בָּטְנִים, דְּבַשׁ,, as gift).
נכד (√ of following, meaning uncertain; Ethiopic = gens, stirps, [compare Samaritan נגד Gen 21:23]).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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