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title: רִקֻּחַ — perfumery · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִקֻּחַ (7547), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: perfumery. BDB 1906: perfumery. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִקֻּחַ

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«רִקֻּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **perfumery** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7547 · **BDB:** רִקּוּחַ

### Glosses

perfumes (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

perfumery [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7547/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

perfumery [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7547/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perfumery;—pl. sf. רִקֻּחָ֑יִךְ Is 57:9 thy perfumeries, unguents.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִקֻּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7547/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 57:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.57.9/)

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וַתָּשֻׁ֤רִי לַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ בַּשֶּׁ֔מֶן וַתַּרְבִּ֖י רִקֻּחָ֑יִךְ וַתְּשַׁלְּחִ֤י צִרַ֙יִךְ֙ עַד־מֵ֣רָחֹ֔ק וַתַּשְׁפִּ֖ילִי עַד־שְׁאֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* and you.journeyed to the king with (the) oil and you.increased perfumes your and you.sent envoys your to from a.distance and you.showed.abasement to Sheol

*JPS 1917:* And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, even down to the nether-world.

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