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# סַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5561

**spice** — used 16 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

spice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5561/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַם²: n.m. spice, used in incense [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5561/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. spice, used in incense;—only pl. abs. סַמִּים, and only P Ch; Ex 30:34(×2) elsewhere קְטֹרֶת (הַ)סַּמִּים incense of spices 25:6 + 8 times Ex, Lv 4:7; 16:12; Nu 4:16; 2 Ch 2:3; 13:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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: the perfume(s) (9); of perfume(s) (5); spices (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 40:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.27/#tree)

וַיַּקְטֵ֥ר עָלָ֖יו קְטֹ֣רֶת סַמִּ֑ים כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת־מֹשֶֽׁה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.made.smoke on it incense of.perfume(s) just as he.had.commanded Yahweh (et) Moses

*JPS 1917:* and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the LORD commanded Moses.

[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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5561.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5561/): 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).