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title: חָנַט — spice · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָנַט (2590), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: spice. BDB 1906: vb. spice, make spicy, embalm. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָנַט

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«חָנַט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spice** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 2590 · **BDB:** חָנַט

### Glosses

embalm (1); people.embalmed (1); they.embalmed (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spice [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. spice, make spicy, embalm [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spice, make spicy, embalm (NH id., bud, blossom; Arabic حَنَطَ become mature, ii. prepare for burial, حَنُوطٌ spices for a corpse; حَنَّاطٌ embalmer, Dozyi, 322 after PS1320; Aramaic ܚܢܰܛ, חֲנַט embalm; so Ethiopic ሐነጠ (loan-word Di110));— Pf. 3 fs. הָֽנְטָה Ct 2:13; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיַּחַנְטוּ Gn 50:2, 26; Inf. cstr. לַחֲנֹט Gn 50:2;— spice, make spicy הַתְּאֵנָה ח׳ פַגֶּיהָ Ct 2:13 the fig-tree spiceth its figs, so VB De in transl. (Ew De in notes Öt al. prefer reddeneth, on account of spring season, cf. the less common and perhaps secondary sense in Arabic become red (of leather) Lane657 a). embalm, sq. acc. pers. Gn 50:2(×2) (performed by הָרֹפְאִים), v 26.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָנַט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2590/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 50:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.26/)

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וַיָּ֣מָת יוֹסֵ֔ף בֶּן־מֵאָ֥ה וָעֶ֖שֶׂר שָׁנִ֑ים וַיַּחַנְט֣וּ אֹת֔וֹ וַיִּ֥ישֶׂם בָּאָר֖וֹן בְּמִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Joseph a.son of.one.hundred and ten years and people.embalmed him and he.was.put in the coffin in Egypt

*JPS 1917:* So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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[Genesis 50:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.50.2/)

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וַיְצַ֨ו יוֹסֵ֤ף אֶת־עֲבָדָיו֙ אֶת־הָרֹ֣פְאִ֔ים לַחֲנֹ֖ט אֶת־אָבִ֑יו וַיַּחַנְט֥וּ הָרֹפְאִ֖ים אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.commanded Joseph (et) servants his (et) the physicians to embalm (et) father his and they.embalmed the physicians (et) Israel

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And the physicians embalmed Israel.

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