Perfumer
רַקָּחStrong’s H7546raqqach (raq-qach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Raqqach is the Hebrew word usually translated “perfumers”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.”
Meaning
- Ointment-maker, perfumer
How it's translated
- the perfumers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רַקָּח raqqach · perfumer
ointment-maker, perfumer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perfumer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERFU'MER, noun
He or that which perfumes.
- One whose trade is to see perfumes.
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.