חָנַט
chanat · embalm
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2590 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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chanat (חָנַט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “embalm”.
Prepare a dead body with spices to preserve it, an Egyptian custom; of fruit, ripen.
How to say it
cha·nat
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
- Prepare a dead body with spices to preserve it.
- Bring fruit to readiness.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- embalmed ×2
- embalm ×1
- embalming ×1
- has ripened ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 50:2
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Genesis 50:3
Forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
- Genesis 50:26
Joseph died a hundred and ten years old; they embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
- Song of Songs 2:13
The fig tree has ripened its early figs, and the vines in blossom give fragrance. Arise, my companion, my beautiful one, and come away.”
And 1 more times.