My tongue also will utter Your righteousness all day long; For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my hurt.
Original word: מֶרְקָחָה
Transliteration: merqachah
Definition (short): ointment
Definition (full): a seasoning, an unguentkettle
Definition: an ointment pot
NASB Translation: jar of ointment (1).
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Feminine of
merqach; abstractly, a seasoning (with spicery); concretely, an unguent-kettle (for preparing spiced oil) -- pot of ointment, X well.
see HEBREW merqach
KJV:
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
NASB:
"He makes the depths boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a jar of ointment.