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# רֹקֵחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7545

**spice-mixture** — used 2 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-mixture [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7545/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רֹ֫קַח: spice-mixture, perfume [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7545/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spice-mixture, perfume;—of holy oil, ר׳ מִרְקַחַת מַעֲשֵׂה רֹקֵחַ Ex 30:25; of incense, ר׳ מַעֲשֵׂה רוֹקֵחַ v 35.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 30:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.35/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ אֹתָהּ֙ קְטֹ֔רֶת רֹ֖קַח מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה רוֹקֵ֑חַ מְמֻלָּ֖ח טָה֥וֹר קֹֽדֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make it incense ointment \[the\].work of.a.perfumer salted pure a.holy.thing

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.

[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/7545.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7545/): 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).