Lexical Summary Basemath: "perfume", a wife of Esau (or perhaps two wives with the same name), also a daughter of Solomon Original Word: בָּשְׂמַתTransliteration: Basemath Phonetic Spelling: (bos-math') Part of Speech: Proper name Short Definition: "perfume", a wife of Esau (or perhaps two wives with the same name), also a daughter of Solomon Meaning: Basemath -- "perfume", a wife of Esau, also a daughter of Solomon Strong's Concordance Bashemath, Basmath Feminine of besem (the second form); fragrance; Bosmath, the name of a wife of Esau, and of a daughter of Solomon -- Bashemath, Basmath. see HEBREW besem Brown-Driver-Briggs H1315. Basemath בָּֽשְׂמִת proper name, feminine (perfume ?) — 1 Hittite woman, a wife of Esau Genesis 26:34 (P); called daughter of Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth 36:3 (but due probably to R; this daughter of Ishmael is מַחֲלַת in 28:9 P); see also 36:4, 10, 13, 17 (all P) (⅏ has מחלת throughout Genesis 36). 2 daughter of Solomon, wife of Ahimaaz 1 Kings 4:15. |
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