rakach · blend perfume

What it means

rakach (רָקַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blend perfume”.

Prepare perfumes or ointments; one who does it, a perfumer.

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. Blend perfumes or spices; the perfumer.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• perfumer ×4
• blended ×1
• blends ×1
• mix ×1
• those who prepared ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Exodus 30:25

  You shall make of it a holy anointing oil, a blended mixture, the work of a perfumer; a holy anointing oil it shall be.

• Exodus 30:33

  Whoever blends any like it, or whoever puts some of it on a stranger, shall be cut off from his people.’”

• Exodus 30:35

  You shall make of it incense, a blend, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

• Exodus 37:29

  And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.

• 1 Chronicles 9:30

  And of the sons of the priests were those who prepared the blend of the spices.

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  They buried him in his tombs that he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on the bed that they had filled with spices and perfumes of various kinds blended as a perfumer’s work; and they made for him a very great burning.

• Ecclesiastes 10:1

  Flies of death make stink, make ferment the oil of the perfumer; weightier than wisdom, than honor, is a little witlessness.

• Ezekiel 24:10

  Heap up the wood, kindle the fire, finish the meat, and mix the spices, and let the bones be charred.