Ointment
מִרְקַ֫חַתStrong’s H4842mirqachat (mir-qa-chat)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mirqachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “ointment-pot”, “mixture” and “as ointment of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.”
Meaning
- Ointment, mixture of ointment
- Ointment-pot
How it's translated
- an ointment-pot 1
- the mixture 1
- as ointment of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 9:30And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.
- 2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Hebrew dictionary
מִרְקַ֫חַת mirqachat · ointment
1) ointment, mixture of ointment 2) ointment-pot
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ointment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OINT'MENT, noun
Unguent; any soft, unctuous substance or compound, used for smearing, particularly the body or a diseased part.
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.