Cosmetic
תַּמְרוּקStrong’s H8562tamruq (tam-ruq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tamruq is the Hebrew word usually translated “rubbings their”, “rubbings her” and “rubbings of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:”
Meaning
- A scraping, rubbing
- (CLBL) remedy (for an injury)
How it's translated
- rubbings their 1
- rubbings her 1
- and with rubbings of 1
- a cleansing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 2:9And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:12Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
- Proverbs 20:30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּמְרוּק tamruq · cosmetic
1) a scraping, rubbing 2) (CLBL) remedy (for an injury)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cosmetic” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COSMETIC, adjective
s as z. [Gr., order, beauty.] Beautifying; improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the skin.
All definitions and other forms of “cosmetic”
COSMETIC, noun
Any preparation that renders the skin soft, pure and white, and helps to beautify and improve the complexion.
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.