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Strong's #4799 - מָרַח
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1) (Qal) to rub
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2353) hrm (מרהה MRHh) AC: Rub CO: ? AB: ?: A poultice is made by crushing a medicinal plant material and rubbing it onto a wound. [from: rm- rubbing]
V) hrm (מרהה MRHh) - Rub: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) plaister - Strongs: H4799 (מָרַח)
cm) hfrm (מרוהה MRWHh) - Crushed: In the sense of being rubbed. KJV (1): broken - Strongs: H4790 (מָרוֹחַ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
anoint, smear); — Qal Imperfect יִשְׂאוּ דְּבֶלֶת תְּאֵנִים וְיִמְרְחוּ עַלהַֿשְּׁחִין Isaiah 38:21 let them take a cake of figs and rub it upon the eruption (שִׂים in "" 2 Kings 20:7). — On מרוח see above
מֶרְחָב, מֶרְחַבְיָה see רחב.
מֶרְחָק see רחק. מַרְחֶ֫שֶׁת see רחשׁ.
מָרַח
(1) to rub, to bruise, to rub out, see מָרוֹחַ. (Cognate are מָרַק, מָרָה, and with ר turned into a sibilant, מָשַׁח. Arab. مَرْخُ a tree from which fire is brought by rubbing.
(2) i.q. Arab. مرخ to rub over, e.g. the body with oil. IV. to soften. In the Old Test. it is once used of a cataplasm laid on a sore, Isaiah 38:21, “Isaiah had said, let them take dried figs וְיִמְרְחוּ עַל־הַשְּׁחִין (pregn.) and lay them softened upon the ulcer;” LXX. καὶ τρίψον καὶ κατάπλασαι. Hence מָרוֹתַ.
