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Perfumer

רַקָּחָהStrong’s H7548

raqqachah (raq-qa-chah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Raqqachah is the Hebrew word usually translated “perfumers”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.”
1 Samuel 8:13 KJV
Meaning
  1. Ointment-maker (female), perfumer (female)
How it's translated
  • to perfumers 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 1

1 book in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    רַקָּחָה raqqachah · perfumer

    ointment-maker (female), perfumer (female)

    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.

    1. 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.