Spice
סַםStrong’s H5561sam
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sam is the Hebrew word usually translated “perfume” and “spices”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,”
Meaning
- Spicea spice used in incense
How it's translated
- the perfume 9
- perfume 5
- spices 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 10
- Leviticus 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Numbers 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:7And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
- Exodus 30:34And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
- Exodus 31:11And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
- Exodus 35:8And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
- Exodus 35:15And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 35:28And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
Hebrew dictionary
סַם sam · spice
1) spice 1a) a spice used in incense
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.