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# מָרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4799

**rub** — 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

rub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4799/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָרַח: vb. rub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4799/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. rub (NH id.; Aramaic (Talm.) מְרַח; cf. Arabic مَرَخَ anoint, smear);— Impf. יִשְׂאוּ דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים וְיִמְרְחוּ עַל־הַשְּׁחִין Is 38:21 let them take a cake of figs and rub it upon the eruption (שִׂים in ‖ 2 K 20:7).—On מרוח v. supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let them rub \[it\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 38:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.21/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְשַׁעְיָ֔הוּ יִשְׂא֖וּ דְּבֶ֣לֶת תְּאֵנִ֑ים וְיִמְרְח֥וּ עַֽל־הַשְּׁחִ֖ין וְיֶֽחִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Isaiah let.them.take a.cake of.figs and let.them.rub.\[it\] on the boil so that.he.may.live

*JPS 1917:* And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4799.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4799/): 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).