Definition

an aromatic unguent; also an unguent-pot

Etymology

from H7543 (רָקַח);

Word family

• רָקַח râqach

How the KJV renders it

• prepared by the apothecaries' art
• compound
• ointment

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.