Rubbing
מָרוּקStrong’s H4795maruq (ma-ruq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maruq is the Hebrew word usually translated “rubbings their”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)”
Meaning
- Scraping, rubbingof year of preparation of girls for the harem; bodily rubbings
How it's translated
- rubbings their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מָרוּק maruq · rubbing
1) scraping, rubbing 1a) of year of preparation of girls for the harem; bodily rubbings
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.