# H7543 רָקַח

רָקַח (râqach), Strong’s H7543: to perfume KJV: apothecary, compound, make (ointment), prepare, spice.. Occurs 7 times.

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*râqach* — to perfume

KJV: apothecary, compound, make (ointment), prepare, spice.

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [רָקַח] vb. mix, or compound oil, ointment (perh. denom.);—
- Qal mix, compound; pt. as subst. compounders of the ointment; as a professional name, mixer, perfumer
- Pu. mixed as ointment
- Hiph. spice the spicing (?), i.e. spice (the meat) well, but very dub.

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 30:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=25) — You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy…
- [Exodus 30:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=33) — Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
- [Exodus 30:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=35) — You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
- [Exodus 37:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/37?v=29) — He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.
- [Ezekiel 24:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/24?v=10) — Heap on the wood. Make the fire hot. Boil the meat well. Make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ecclesiastes/10?v=1) — Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
- [1 Chronicles 9:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/9?v=30) — Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.