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# חָנַט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2590

**spice** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָנַט: vb. spice, make spicy, embalm [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spice, make spicy, embalm (NH id., bud, blossom; Arabic حَنَطَ become mature, ii. prepare for burial, حَنُوطٌ spices for a corpse; حَنَّاطٌ embalmer, Dozyi, 322 after PS1320; Aramaic ܚܢܰܛ, חֲנַט embalm; so Ethiopic ሐነጠ (loan-word Di110));— Pf. 3 fs. הָֽנְטָה Ct 2:13; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּחַנְטוּ Gn 50:2, 26; Inf. cstr. לַחֲנֹט Gn 50:2;— spice, make spicy הַתְּאֵנָה ח׳ פַגֶּיהָ Ct 2:13 the fig-tree spiceth its figs, so VB De in transl. (Ew De in notes Öt al. prefer reddeneth, on account of spring season, cf. the less common and perhaps secondary sense in Arabic become red (of leather) Lane657 a). embalm, sq. acc. pers. Gn 50:2(×2) (performed by הָרֹפְאִים), v 26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: embalm (1); people embalmed (1); they embalmed (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 50:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.26/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָת יוֹסֵ֔ף בֶּן־מֵאָ֥ה וָעֶ֖שֶׂר שָׁנִ֑ים וַיַּחַנְט֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ וַיִּ֥ישֶׂם בָּאָר֖וֹן בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Joseph a.son of.one.hundred and ten years and people.embalmed him and he.was.put in the coffin in Egypt

*JPS 1917:* So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

[Genesis 50:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.2/#tree)

וַיְצַ֨ו יוֹסֵ֤ף אֶת־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶת־הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים לַחֲנֹ֖ט אֶת־אָבִ֑יו וַיַּחַנְט֥וּ הָרֹפְאִ֖ים אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.commanded Joseph (et) servants his (et) the physicians to embalm (et) father his and they.embalmed the physicians (et) Israel

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2590.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).