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# מֶרְקָח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4840

**spice** — 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

spice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4840/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶרְקָח²: spice, perfume [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4840/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spice, perfume (of cheeks); pl. מֶרְקָחִים Ct 5:13 (v. also מִגְדָּל 3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.13/#tree)

לְחָיָו֙ כַּעֲרוּגַ֣ת הַבֹּ֔שֶׂם מִגְדְּל֖וֹת מֶרְקָחִ֑ים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו֙ שֽׁוֹשַׁנִּ֔ים נֹטְפ֖וֹת מ֥וֹר עֹבֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* cheeks his \[are\].like.(the) bed of.(the) spice towers of.aromatic.herbs lips his \[are\].lilies dripping myrrh flowing

*JPS 1917:* His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs; his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4840/): 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).