4799 - marach

Strong's Concordance

Original word: מָרַח
Transliteration: marach
Definition (short): apply
Definition (full): to soften by rubbing, pressure, to apply as an emollient

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to rub
NASB Translation: apply (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; properly, to soften by rubbing or pressure; hence (medicinally) to apply as an emollient -- lay for a plaister.
KJV: For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
NASB: Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."