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# מִשְׁחָה

Biblical Hebrew

**unction** — used 2 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

unction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d7_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁחָה: n.f. ointment consecrated portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d7_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. ointment; 2. consecrated portion;—abs. מ׳ Ex 25:6 +; cstr. מִשְׁחַת Ex 30:25 +;— ointment, the holy oil used in the consecration of the Aaronic priests, only in P; שֶׁמֶן הַמִּשְׁחָה Ex 25:6; 29:7, 21; 31:11; 35:8, 15, 28; 37:29; 39:38; 40:9; Lv 8:2, 10, 12, 30; 21:10; Nu 4:16; שׁ׳ מִשְׁחַת קֹדֶשׁ Ex 30:25(×2), 31; שׁ׳ מ׳ יהוה Lv 10:7; שׁ׳ מ׳ אֱלֹהָיו 21:21. consecrated portion, of Aaron and his sons Lv 7:35(×2) (P).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Leviticus 7:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.7.35/#tree)

זֹ֣את מִשְׁחַ֤ת אַהֲרֹן֙ וּמִשְׁחַ֣ת בָּנָ֔יו מֵאִשֵּׁ֖י יְהוָ֑ה בְּיוֹם֙ הִקְרִ֣יב אֹתָ֔ם לְכַהֵ֖ן לַיהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the.share of.Aaron and the.share his.sons his from the.fire.offerings of.Yahweh on.\[the\] day \[when\].he.presented them to serve.as.priests (to) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when they were presented to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c1_5d7_5b8_5d4/): 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).