Apothecary
Apothecary
(, rooke ‘ch, seasoning, i.e. with aromatics; Sept. , Exo 30:25; Exo 37:29; Ecc 10:1), correctly rendered in the margin perfumer; so also in Sir 38:8; Ecc 49:1; the word means also any thing spiced (1Ch 9:30); hence, ointment, confection (Exo 30:35). The holy oils and ointments were probably prepared by one of the priests who had properly qualified himself in Egypt, where unguents were in great use. SEE ANOINTING. Roberts (Oriental Illustrations, p. 80) states that in Hindoo temples there is a man called Thile-Karan, whose chief business it is to distil sweet waters from flowers, and to extract oils from wood, flowers, and other substances. From our version having rendered the word apothecary, it would seem to indicate that the business of a perfumer was not distinguished from that of an apothecary in the time of the translators. Thus Shakspeare, a contemporary writer, says,
An ounce of civet,
good apothecary,
To sweeten mine imagination.
Indeed perfumery is almost inseparable from a druggist’s stock in trade. Sacred oil appears to have been as copiously used by the heathen nations as it was in:the Jewish tabernacle and temple, and during the patriarchal economy; the Sanscrit writers prove its retention in the present religious services of India, and that it was adopted in the more ancient we have the authority of Strabo (lib. 15), where he refers to a ceremony which calls to mind the words of the psalmist, that it ran down upon Aaron’s beard, that went down to the skirts of his garments (Psa 133:2). Sir William Ouseley, also (Trav. in Persia, 1, 391), mentions the statue of a man at Shapur, which, according to the Nozhat al-Colzb, princes went on pilgrimages to visit and anoint with oil. SEE PERFUME.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Apothecary
rendered in the margin and the Revised Version “perfumer,” in Ex. 30:25; 37:29; Eccl. 10:1. The holy oils and ointments were prepared by priests properly qualified for this office. The feminine plural form of the Hebrew word is rendered “confectionaries” in 1 Sam. 8:13.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Apothecary
APOTHECARY.In all the 8 occurrences of this word in OT and Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] we should render perfumer, as does RV [Note: Revised Version.] in half of these (Exo 30:25; Exo 30:35; Exo 37:29, Ecc 10:1); elsewhere the former is retained (2Ch 16:14, Neh 3:8 (cf. marg.), Sir 38:8; Sir 49:1). See Perfumer.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Apothecary
a-pothe-ka-ri: Found in English Versions of the Bible eight times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha for Hebrew word rendered more accurately perfumer by the Revised Version (British and American) in Exo 30:25, Exo 30:35; Exo 37:29; Ecc 10:1; though inconsistently retained elsewhere (2Ch 16:14 the English Revised Version; Neh 3:8 the English Revised Version (compare the margin)); Sirach 38:8; 49:1). See PERFUMER.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Apothecary
raqach. 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, etc., such as would now be called a ‘perfumer,’ as it is rendered in the margin of Exo 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. Exo 30:35; Exo 37:29. Asa was buried in a tomb filled with sweet odours and spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art. 2Ch 16:14: cf. also Neh 3:8. Spices were also carried to the tomb of the Lord to embalm His body.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Apothecary
A compounder of drugs
Exo 30:25; Exo 30:35; Exo 37:29; 2Ch 16:14; Neh 3:8
Ointment of
Ecc 10:1