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# מֶרְקָחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4841

**seasoning** — used 2 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

seasoning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶרְקָחָה: n.f. ointment-pot spice-seasoning Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ointment-pot, in which ointment is compounded, Jb 41:23 (fig.). spice-seasoning (?); as acc. cogn. v. √ Hiph.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 41:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/#tree)

יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.makes.boil like (the) pot \[the\].deep \[the\].sea it.makes like.(the) pot of.ointment

*JPS 1917:* He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.

[Ezekiel 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.10/#tree)

הַרְבֵּ֤ה הָעֵצִים֙ הַדְלֵ֣ק הָאֵ֔שׁ הָתֵ֖ם הַבָּשָׂ֑ר וְהַרְקַח֙ הַמֶּרְקָחָ֔ה וְהָעֲצָמ֖וֹת יֵחָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* increase the wood(s) kindle the fire complete the meat and mix the seasoning and the bones let.them.be.charred

*JPS 1917:* heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the flesh may be consumed; and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/): 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).