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# רַקָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7546

**ointment-maker** — 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

ointment-maker [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7546/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַקָּח: n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7546/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer;—only in phr. בֶּן־הָרַקָּחִים Ne 3:8, i.e. one of the perfumers, i.e. of that guild.

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 (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: the perfumers (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.8/#tree)

עַל־יָד֣וֹ הֶחֱזִ֗יק עֻזִּיאֵ֤ל בֶּֽן־חַרְהֲיָה֙ צֽוֹרְפִ֔יםס וְעַל־יָד֣וֹ הֶחֱזִ֔יק חֲנַנְיָ֖ה בֶּן־הָרַקָּחִ֑ים וַיַּֽעַזְבוּ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם עַ֖ד הַחוֹמָ֥ה הָרְחָבָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* on hand his he.repaired Uzziel the.son of.Harhaiah goldsmiths and on hand his he.repaired Hananiah the.son of the.perfumers and they.restored Jerusalem to the wall (the) broad

*JPS 1917:* Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they restored Jerusalem even unto the broad wall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7546.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7546/): 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).