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מָרוּק

ma.ruq

rubbing

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Strong’s H4795Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

rubbings1

In the text

Esther 2:12מְרוּקֵיהֶן
In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מָרוּק] n.[m.] a scraping, rubbing;—only pl. sf. Est 2:12

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.