STRONGS NUMBER H4799


Word Summary
marach: to rub
Original Word: מָרַח
Transliteration: marach
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-rakh')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to rub
Meaning: to soften by rubbing, pressure, to apply as an emollient
Strong's Concordance
lay for a plaster

A primitive root; properly, to soften by rubbing or pressure; hence (medicinally) to apply as an emollient -- lay for a plaister.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4799. marach

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

Qal Imperfect עַלהַֿשְּׁחִין וְיִמְרְחוּ תְּאֵנִים דְּבֶלֶת יִשְׂאוּIsaiah 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

מֶרְחַבְיָה מֶרְחָב,‎ see רחב‎.

מֶרְחָק‎ see רחק‎. מַרְחֶ֫שֶׁת‎ see רחשׁ‎.