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# מִרְקַחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4842

**ointment-mixture** — 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

ointment-mixture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4842/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִרְקַ֫חַת: n.f. ointment-mixture ointment-pot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4842/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. ointment-mixture. 2. ointment-pot (?);— abs. רֹקְחֵי הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 9:30; רֹקַח מ׳ Ex 30:25. בְּמ׳ 2 Ch 16:14 in an ointment-pot (?), or as an ointment-mixture.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ointment mixture (2); of an ointment mixture (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.30/#tree)

וּמִן־בְּנֵי֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים רֹקְחֵ֥י הַמִּרְקַ֖חַת לַבְּשָׂמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some.of the.sons of the.priests \[were.those.who\].mixed (of).the ointment.mixture of the spices

*JPS 1917:* And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

[Exodus 30:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.25/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ אֹת֗וֹ שֶׁ֚מֶן מִשְׁחַת־קֹ֔דֶשׁ רֹ֥קַח מִרְקַ֖חַת מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה רֹקֵ֑חַ שֶׁ֥מֶן מִשְׁחַת־קֹ֖דֶשׁ יִהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make it oil of.anointing of.holiness ointment of.an.ointment.mixture \[the\].work of.a.perfumer oil of.anointing of.holiness it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4842.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4842/): 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).