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title: מֶרְקָחָה — seasoning · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֶרְקָחָה (4841), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: seasoning. BDB 1906: n.f. ointment-pot spice-seasoning Hiph. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֶרְקָחָה

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«מֶרְקָחָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **seasoning** — 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:** 4841 · **BDB:** מֶרְקָחָה

### Glosses

of.ointment (1); seasoning (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

seasoning [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. ointment-pot spice-seasoning Hiph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ointment-pot, in which ointment is compounded, Jb 41:23 (fig.). spice-seasoning (?); as acc. cogn. v. √ Hiph.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֶרְקָחָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4841/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 41:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.23/)

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יַרְתִּ֣יחַ כַּסִּ֣יר מְצוּלָ֑ה יָ֝֗ם יָשִׂ֥ים כַּמֶּרְקָחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.makes.boil like (the) pot \[the\].deep \[the\].sea it.makes like.(the) pot of.ointment

*JPS 1917:* He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a seething mixture.

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[Ezekiel 24:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.24.10/)

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הַרְבֵּ֤ה הָעֵצִים֙ הַדְלֵ֣ק הָאֵ֔שׁ הָתֵ֖ם הַבָּשָׂ֑ר וְהַרְקַח֙ הַמֶּרְקָחָ֔ה וְהָעֲצָמ֖וֹת יֵחָֽרוּ׃

*Word for word:* increase the wood(s) kindle the fire complete the meat and mix the seasoning and the bones let.them.be.charred

*JPS 1917:* heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the flesh may be consumed; and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned;

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