Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4842
מִרְקַחַת
mirqachathmeer-kakh'-ath
ointment
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4842is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4842
an aromatic unguent; also an unguent-pot
The King James renders it: prepared by the apothecaries' art, compound, ointment.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mirqachath is rendered "ointment". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:25Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
Exodus 30:25מִרְקַ֖חַת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an ointment-pot1
- as ointment of1
- of the mixture1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּמִרְקַ֣חַת1
- הַמִּרְקַ֖חַת1
- מִרְקַ֖חַת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Exodus
one use
Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
- מִרְקַ֖חַתmirkachatnoun · feminine singulartagged: an ointment-pot
1 Chronicles
one use
And some of the sons of the priests mixed the spices.
- הַמִּרְקַ֖חַתhamirkachatthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the mixture
2 Chronicles
one use
And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.
- בְּמִרְקַ֣חַתbemirkachatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: as ointment of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.