apothecary, compound, make (ointment), prepare, spice
“Spice, Spices” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(species). Hardly, as with us, the entire list of aromatic vegetable substances, but rather the fragrant gums, barks, and so forth, of ceremonial, medicinal, and toilet value, and for embalming (Gen. 37:25; 43:11; Song of Sol. 4:14; Mark 16:1; John 19:39-40).
“Apothecary” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(to place away). The apothecary’s art was called for in the mixing of perfume (Ex. 30:35).
“Spices” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
These were much used in the East, and were of different kinds. See the various names by which they are designated, as myrrh, aloes, cassia, galbanum, stacte.
Spices at a bazaar in Jerusalem.
“Apothecary (Raqach)” From Concise Bible Dictionary:
This term is not used in scripture in the modern sense of a compounder of drugs for medicine; but in that of a compounder of ointments, such as would now be called a “perfumer,” as it is rendered in the margin of Exodus 30:25, where the holy anointing oil is an ointment compounded “after the art of the apothecary.” The same was said of the holy incense (Ex. 30:35; Ex. 37:29). Asa was buried in a tomb filled with sweet odors and spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art (2 Chron. 16:14; compare also Neh. 3:8). Spices were also carried to the tomb of the Lord to embalm His body.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
a primitive root; to perfume
KJV Usage:
apothecary, compound, make (ointment), prepare, spice