HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7544
רֶ֫קַח
re.qach — spice
spice, spicery
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Spicery
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Heb. nechoth, identified with the Arabic naka’at, the gum tragacanth, obtained from the astralagus, of which there are about twenty species found in Palestine. The tragacanth of commerce is obtained from the A. tragacantha. “The gum exudes plentifully under the heat of the sun on the leaves, thorns, and exteremity of the twigs.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.