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# perfumer

noun

«perfumer» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

A skilled craftsman who made the holy anointing oil and the incense for the tabernacle. Later, perfumers were an ordinary trade: Samuel warned that a king would take daughters to be perfumers, and Hananiah the perfumer helped repair Jerusalem's wall.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis said the oil and incense had to be made exactly as commanded, with no changes. Ecclesiastes uses the perfumer's spoiled ointment as a picture of how a little folly can ruin great wisdom.

### Meaning

A person whose work is making perfume. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#m1)

### Examples

- And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer. (Torah EXO.37.29, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x1)
- And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. (Torah EXO.30.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x2)
- 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. (Torah EXO.30.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x3)
- And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. (Prophets 1SA.8.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x4)
- And next unto him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they restored Jerusalem even unto the broad wall. (Writings NEH.3.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x5)
- Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour. (Writings ECC.10.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/#x6)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «perfumer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/perfumer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«perfumer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/perfumer.html) on Mova free.