Strong’s H5219 · Hebrew

נְכֹאת
nᵉkôʼth
nek-ohth'

Definition

properly, a smiting, i.e. (concretely) an aromatic gum (perhaps styrax) (as powdered)

Etymology

from H5218 (נָכֵא);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • spicery(-ces)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.