Lexical Summary marach: to rub Original Word: מָרַחTransliteration: 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 יִשְׂאוּ 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 מֶרְחַבְיָה מֶרְחָב, see רחב. מֶרְחָק see רחק. מַרְחֶ֫שֶׁת see רחשׁ. |