Strong’s H4840 · Hebrew
מֶרְקָח
merqâch
mer-kawkh'
Definition
a spicy herb
Etymology
from H7543 (רָקַח);
Word family
How the KJV renders it
- sweet
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.