To spice
חָנַטStrong’s H2590chanat (cha-nat)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chanat is the Hebrew word usually translated “embalm”, “embalmed” and “embalming”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
Meaning
- To embalm, spice, make spicy(Qal)
- (CLBL) to ripen
- (BDB) embalming
How it's translated
- to embalm 1
- and they embalmed 1
- the embalming 1
- and people embalmed 1
- it has ripened 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 50:3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
- Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
- Song of Solomon 2:13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Hebrew dictionary
חָנַט chanat · to spice
v 1) to embalm, spice, make spicy 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to spice, make spicy 1a2) to embalm 2) (CLBL) to ripen
חֲנֻטִים chanutim · embalming
(BDB) embalming
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spice” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPICE, noun
- A vegetable production, fragrant or aromatic to the smell and pungent to the taste; used in sauces and in cookery.
- A small quantity; something that enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of a thing.
- A sample.
All definitions and other forms of “spice”
SPICE, verb transitive
- To season with spice; to mix aromatic substances with; as, to spice wine.
- To tincture; as the spiced Indian air.
- To render nice; to season with scruples.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.