Strong's Lexicon

H4799

H4799 — מָרַח

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmarachverb-stemOccurrences: 1TWOT: 1243

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4799
Word:	מָרַח
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	1
Transliteration:	marach
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	maw-rakh'
Meaning:	1. (properly) to soften by rubbing or pressure 2. hence (medicinally) to apply as an emollient
KJV Renderings:	lay for a plaister.

Use Strong's responsibly

Strong's is an index and starting point, not the final meaning of a word. Do not build doctrine from a gloss, root, or number. Test meaning by sentence, grammar, authorial usage, context, and the passage argument.

Read: Using Strong's Responsibly

Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4812

[מָרַח] verb rub (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic (Talmud) מְרַח; compare Arabic [untranscribed source text 3080] anoint, smear); —

Qal Imperfect יִשְׂאוּ דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים וְיִמְרְחוּ עַלהַֿשְּׁחִין Isa 38:21 let them take a cake of figs and rub it upon the eruption (שִׂים in || 2Kgs 20:7). — On מרוח see above

מֶרְחָב, מֶרְחַבְיָה see רחב .

מֶרְחָק see רחק . מַרְחֶ֫שֶׁת see רחשׁ .

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מרח (mâh-ragh’)

Isaiah 38:21

KJV: For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

EHCC: lump of figs, and lay (it) for a plaister

2 Samuel 22:20

KJV: He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

EHCC: brought me forth also into a large place :

Hosea 4:16

KJV: For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

EHCC: feed them as a lamb ix a large place.

Habakkuk 1:6

KJV: For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.breadth: Heb. breadths

EHCC: through the breadth (marg. breadths) of ,