such · anoint, rub with oil

What it means

such (סוּךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “anoint, rub with oil”.

Anoint, rub the body with oil.

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. To rub oil on oneself or another, to care for the body.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• anoint yourself ×4
• anoint myself at all ×2
• anointed himself ×1
• anointed them ×1
• anointed you ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Ruth×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×2
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 28:40

  You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but with oil you will not anoint yourself, for your olives will drop off.

• Ruth 3:3

  So wash yourself, anoint yourself, put your cloak on you, and go down to the threshing floor; do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

• 2 Samuel 12:20

  Then David rose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his cloaks; he went into the house of YHWH and bowed down; then he went to his own house and asked, and they set before him bread, and he ate.

• 2 Samuel 14:2

  Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and he said to her, “Please mourn; put on, please, mourning clothes and do not anoint yourself with oil, and be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for these many days.

• 2 Chronicles 28:15

  Then the men who had been designated by name rose up and took charge of the captives; and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil; they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, anointed them, led them on donkeys, all who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, beside their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

• Ezekiel 16:9

  And I washed you with water and rinsed off your blood from you, and anointed you with oil.

• Daniel 10:3

  Delicate food I did not eat, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, until three full weeks were completed.

• Micah 6:15

  You will sow but not reap; you will tread the olive but not anoint yourself with oil; and tread the new wine, but not drink the wine.

And 1 more times.