Anointing
מִשְׁחָהStrong’s H4888mishchah (mish-chah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mishchah is the Hebrew word usually translated “anointing”, “anointing of” and “anointing their”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,”
Meaning
- Ointment (used to consecrate by anointing)
- Anointing portion
- Consecrated portion, portion
How it's translated
- anointing 15
- anointing of 5
- the anointing 1
- for anointing 1
- anointing their 1
- share of 1
- and share of 1
- to a portion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 14
- Leviticus 8
- Numbers 2
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 29:7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
- Exodus 29:21And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
- Exodus 29:29And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
- Exodus 30:25And 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.
- Exodus 30:31And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
- Exodus 31:11And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
Hebrew dictionary
מִשְׁחָה mishchah · anointing
1) ointment (used to consecrate by anointing) 2) anointing portion
מָשְׁחָה mashchah · consecrated portion
consecrated portion, portion
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anointing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ANOINT'ING, participle present
tense Smearing with oil; pouring on oil, or other oleaginous substance; consecrating.
All definitions and other forms of “anointing”
ANOINT'ING, noun
The act of smearing with oil; a consecrating.
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.