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# מְרוּקִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4795

**a scraping** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a scraping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4795/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרוּק: scraping, rubbing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4795/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Köii. 138) n.\[m.\] a scraping, rubbing;—only pl. sf. יְמֵי מְרוּקֵיהֶן Est 2:12 lit. the days of their (bodily) rubbings, i.e. the year’s preparation of girls for the harem.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: their rubbings (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.12/#tree)

וּבְהַגִּ֡יעַ תֹּר֩ נַעֲרָ֨ה וְנַעֲרָ֜ה לָב֣וֹא ׀ אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ מִקֵּץ֩ הֱי֨וֹת לָ֜הּ כְּדָ֤ת הַנָּשִׁים֙ שְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֣ר חֹ֔דֶשׁ כִּ֛י כֵּ֥ן יִמְלְא֖וּ יְמֵ֣י מְרוּקֵיהֶ֑ן שִׁשָּׁ֤ה חֳדָשִׁים֙ בְּשֶׁ֣מֶן הַמֹּ֔ר וְשִׁשָּׁ֤ה חֳדָשִׁים֙ בַּבְּשָׂמִ֔ים וּבְתַמְרוּקֵ֖י הַנָּשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and when arrived \[the\].turn of.a.young.woman and a.young.woman to go to the king Ahasuerus from.\[the\] end of.being for her according to.the.regulation of the.women two.plus ten month\[s\] (dm) thus they.were.completed the.days their.rubbings their six months with the.oil of.(the) myrrh and six months with.(the) balsam oil and with the.cleansings of.(the) women

*JPS 1917:* Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women, twelve months — for so were the days of their anointing accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six month with sweet odours, and with other ointments of the women —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4795.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4795/): 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).