Hebrew

Tragacanth gum

נְכֹאתStrong’s H5219

nekhot (ne-khot)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Nekhot is the Hebrew word usually translated “spice”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”

Genesis 37:25 KJV

Meaning

A spiceperhaps tragacanth gum

How it's translated

spice 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Genesis 2

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 43:11And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

Hebrew dictionary

נְכֹאת nekhot · tragacanth gum

1) a spice 1a) perhaps tragacanth gum

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.