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מֶרְקָח

mer.qach

spice

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Strong’s H4840Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

aromatic herbs1

In the text

Song of Songs 5:13מֶרְקָחִים
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מֶרְקָח] n.[m.] spice, perfume (of cheeks); pl. Ct 5:13

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.