Spice
מֶרְקָחStrong’s H4840merqach (mer-qach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Merqach is the Hebrew word usually translated “aromatic herbs”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.”
Meaning
- Spice, perfume, aromatic spices
How it's translated
- aromatic herbs 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מֶרְקָח merqach · spice
spice, perfume, aromatic spices
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.