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מַרְחֶ֫שֶׁת

saucepan

H4802 Strong's Hebrew
marchesheth Transliteration
/mar-kheh'-sheth/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

מרחשת — transliterated marchesheth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “saucepan.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Leviticus. Debuting at Leviticus 2:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fryingpan
Modern gloss
saucepan
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H4802 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Leviticus 2:7
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Leviticus 2:7.
Leviticus 7:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Leviticus 7:9.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 2 · 100%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Baken in the fryingpan 1×, Fryingpan 1×
  • American Standard Version: Frying-pan 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Pan 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pan 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H4802 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Baken in the fryingpan” 1×
  • “Fryingpan” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H4802 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Frying-pan” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H4802 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pan” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H4802 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Pan” 2×

Senses in BDB

The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. saucepan, stew pan

Word origin

n.f. stew-pan, sauce-pan (so NH; v. especially LevyNHWB iii. 69b, and cf. NH רָחוֹשׁ id ib. iv. 443a);—מִנְחַת מ׳ Lv 2:7, כָּל־[מִנְחָה] נַעֲשָׂה בַמּ׳ 7:9.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from רחש (râchash) (H7370) — to stir.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 2152a


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

מַרְחֶשֶׁת I

  • v. רָחַשׁ) deep and covered pan. Men. V, 8; Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., Par. 10, ch. XII; a. e.; v. מַחֲבַת.

מַרְחֶשֶׁת II

  • Marḥesheth (v. Hildesh. Beitr., p. 31). Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᶜ; Tosef. Shebi. IV, 11 מחר׳ ed. Zuck. (Var. מרח׳); Sifré Deut. 51 מַרְעֶשֶׁת; Yalk. ib. 874 מַרְעַשְׁתָּא.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H4802 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
בַ/מַּרְחֶ֖שֶׁת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 7:9 1
מַרְחֶ֖שֶׁת Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 2:7 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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