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# רַקָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7548

**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/1512/7548/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רַקָּח: n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7548/#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, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: perfumers (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 8:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.13/#tree)

וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם יִקָּ֑ח לְרַקָּח֥וֹת וּלְטַבָּח֖וֹת וּלְאֹפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) daughters your he.will.take to perfumers and to cooks and to bakers

*JPS 1917:* And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7548.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7548/): 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).