ra.qach describes combining ingredients for ointment, incense, or seasoning, including the work of the person who prepares them.

The attested use concerns combining prepared ingredients, especially for ointment and incense: active participles identify the preparer or his work in Exodus 30:25, Exodus 30:35, and Exodus 37:29, while the same action is applied to seasoning in Ezekiel 24:10 and to mixed ointments in 2 Chronicles 16:14.

1. Combining ingredients into a prepared mixture · dominant

   Active participles identify those preparing spices, ointment, and incense: in 1 Chronicles 9:30 the APB renders that priests “prepared the ointment for the spices,” and in Exodus 30:25 it calls the product “the work of a mixer.” The imperfect in Exodus 30:33 concerns a man who makes a comparable preparation, while the imperative in Ezekiel 24:10 directs the mixing of seasoning; the passive participle in 2 Chronicles 16:14 describes ointments already mixed.

   1 Chronicles 9:302 Chronicles 16:14Exodus 30:25Exodus 30:33Exodus 30:35Ezekiel 24:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the action with such wording as “prepared,” “mixed ointments,” “mixes,” and “mix the seasoning,” and it identifies a preparer as a “mixer” or “perfumer.” These renderings show the clauses’ presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent for each form.