Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5219 - נְכאת nekoth

Original Word:	נְכאת
Transliteration:	nekoth
Phonetic Spelling:	(nek-ohth')
Definition:	(a spice) perhaps tragacanth gum
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

spices

From nake'; properly, a smiting, i.e. (concretely) an aromatic gum (perhaps styrax) (as powdered) -- spicery(-ces).

see HEBREW nake'

Englishman's Concordance

1) a spice
1a) perhaps tragacanth gum
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H5218
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1362c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נְכאֹתnoun femininea spice, (usually understood of tragacanth gum, exuding from astralagus bush, Di^{Genesis 27:25 and references}; Now^{Archaeology i. 64} (and 249); compare also Löw^{§ 24}; but=Arabic

summitas rubicunda sive flores plantae (i.e. a certain plant, Frey), according to Hom^{Aufsätze 4}); — absolute ׳נGenesis 37:25 ( + צְרִי, לּט as merchandise), Genesis 43:11 (+ id., also דְּבַשׁ, בָּטְנִים, שְׁקֵדִים, as gift).

נכד (√ of following, meaning uncertain; Ethiopic =gens, stirps, [compare Samaritan נגדGenesis 21:23]).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5219. נְכֹאת (nekoth) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 37:25
HEB:וּגְמַלֵּיהֶ֣ם נֹֽשְׂאִ֗ים נְכֹאת֙ וּצְרִ֣י וָלֹ֔ט
NAS: bearing aromatic gum and balm
KJV: bearing spicery and balm
INT: their camels bearing aromatic and balm and myrrh

Genesis 43:11
HEB:וּמְעַ֣ט דְּבַ֔שׁ נְכֹ֣את וָלֹ֔ט בָּטְנִ֖ים
NAS: honey, aromatic gum and myrrh,
KJV: honey, spices, and myrrh,
INT: little honey aromatic and myrrh pistachio

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