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title: מְשַׁח — oil · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: מְשַׁח (lemma:מְשַׁח), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 2 times: oil. BDB 1906: oil. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מְשַׁח

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«מְשַׁח» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **oil** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:מְשַׁח · **BDB:** מְשַׁח

### Glosses

oil (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

oil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

oil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] oil (v. BH);—abs. Ezr 6:9; 7:22.

### Jastrow 1903

מְשַׁח III: oil, fat resin pine-wood [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (מְשַׁח I) oil, fat. Targ. Num. VII, 13. Targ. Ex. XXIX, 7; a. fr.—Y. Maas. Sh. IV, 54ᵈ bot. הוה ליה משח וכ׳ had oil which he took down to Acco (for sale). Ib. ההוא מִישְׁחָךְ וכ׳ (not מישחף, some ed. מישחא) that oil of thine at Beth M.—Ab. Zar. 37ᵃ דשרו מ׳ who permitted oil (of gentiles). Ib. 28ᵃ מ׳ דאווזא goose-fat; a. fr. resin. Targ. Is. XLI, 19 אעין דמ׳ pine-wood (h. text עצי שמן, v. דדנין).—Succ. 40ᵃ, v. מִשְׁחָן. Gitt. 69ᵇ, v. כּוּפְרָא II.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מְשַׁח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d7/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 7:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.22/)

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עַד־כְּסַף֮ כַּכְּרִ֣ין מְאָה֒ וְעַד־חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־חֲמַר֙ בַּתִּ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־בַּתִּ֥ין מְשַׁ֖ח מְאָ֑ה וּמְלַ֖ח דִּי־לָ֥א כְתָֽב׃

*Word for word:* up.to silver talents one.hundred and up.to wheat(s) cors one.hundred and up.to wine baths one.hundred and up.to baths oil one.hundred and salt which not \[is\].writing

*JPS 1917:* unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

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[Ezra 6:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.9/)

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וּמָ֣ה חַשְׁחָ֡ן וּבְנֵ֣י תוֹרִ֣ין וְדִכְרִ֣ין וְאִמְּרִ֣ין ׀ לַעֲלָוָ֣ן ׀ לֶאֱלָ֪הּ שְׁמַיָּ֟א חִנְטִ֞ין מְלַ֣ח ׀ חֲמַ֣ר וּמְשַׁ֗ח כְּמֵאמַ֨ר כָּהֲנַיָּ֤א דִי־בִירֽוּשְׁלֶם֙ לֶהֱוֵ֨א מִתְיְהֵ֥ב לְהֹ֛ם י֥וֹם ׀ בְּי֖וֹם דִּי־לָ֥א שָׁלֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and whatever things.needed and young of.bulls and rams and lambs for burnt.offerings to the.God of the.heavens wheat(s) salt wine and oil according to.the.word of the.priests who \[are\].in Jerusalem it.will.be given to them day by day that not negligence

*JPS 1917:* And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

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