רָקַחrâqach
mix, compound oil, ointment
Pronunciation: raw-kakh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7543
Meanings
Qal: mix, compound (Exodus 30:33; Exodus 30:25; Exodus 30:35)
Pu`al: mixed (2 Chronicles 16:14)
Hiph`il: spice the spicing (?), i.e. spice (the meat) well, but very dubious (Ezekiel 24:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 30:25 Like a skilled incense maker, blend these ingredients to make a holy anointing oil.
- Exodus 30:33 Anyone who makes a blend like it or anoints someone other than a priest will be cut off from the community.’”
- Exodus 30:35 Using the usual techniques of the incense maker, blend the spices together and sprinkle them with salt to produce a pure and holy incense.
- Exodus 37:29 Then he made the sacred anointing oil and the fragrant incense, using the techniques of a skilled incense maker.
- 1 Chronicles 9:30 But it was the priests who blended the spices.
- 2 Chronicles 16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out for himself in the City of David. He was laid on a bed perfumed with sweet spices and fragrant ointments, and the people built a huge funeral fire in his honor.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).