tamruk · ointment, cosmetic

What it means

tamruk (תַּמְרוּק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ointment, cosmetic”.

Ointment: oils and perfumes with which the body was rubbed to cleanse it and make it beautiful.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Perfumed oils for the body.
2. What removes dirt or evil, like a remedy that cleans.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ointments ×3
• cleanse away ×1

Where it appears

• Esther×3
• Proverbs×1

• Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every young woman, a virgin of good appearance, to Susa, the fortress, to the house of the women, under the hand of Hege, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women; and let their ointments be given;

• Esther 2:9

  And the young woman seemed good in his eyes, and she won loyal love before him; and he hurried to give her her ointments and her portions, and the seven young women chosen to be given to her from the king’s house; and he moved her and her young women to the best part of the house of the women.

• Esther 2:12

  And when the turn of each young woman came to go in to King Ahasuerus, at the end of twelve months of her being according to the law of the women (for so the days of their ointments were completed: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and with the ointments of the women),

• Proverbs 20:30

  The wounds of a blow cleanse away evil, and lashes, the inner rooms of the belly.