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# מִשְׁחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4888

**unction** — used 22 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

unction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4888/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִשְׁחָה: n.f. ointment consecrated portion [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4888/#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, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: anointing (16); of anointing (3); of (the) anointing (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.6/#tree)

שֶׁ֖מֶן לַמָּאֹ֑ר בְּשָׂמִים֙ לְשֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֔ה וְלִקְטֹ֖רֶת הַסַּמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* oil for the light spices for the.oil of the.anointing and for the.incense of the.perfume(s)

*JPS 1917:* oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense;

[Exodus 29:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.29.7/#tree)

וְלָֽקַחְתָּ֙ אֶת־שֶׁ֣מֶן הַמִּשְׁחָ֔ה וְיָצַקְתָּ֖ עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֖ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.take (et) the.oil of.(the) anointing and you.will.pour.\[it\] on head his and you.will.anoint him

*JPS 1917:* Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4888.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4888/): 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).