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title: רַקָּח — ointment-maker · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רַקָּח (7548), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ointment-maker. BDB 1906: n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רַקָּח

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«רַקָּח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ointment-maker** — 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:** 7548 · **BDB:** רַקָּח

### Glosses

perfumers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ointment-maker [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7548/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7548/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ointment-maker, perfumer;—only in phr. בֶּן־הָרַקָּחִים Ne 3:8, i.e. one of the perfumers, i.e. of that guild.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רַקָּח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7548/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.8.13/)

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וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם יִקָּ֑ח לְרַקָּח֥וֹת וּלְטַבָּח֖וֹת וּלְאֹפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and (et) daughters your he.will.take to perfumers and to cooks and to bakers

*JPS 1917:* And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

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