Strong's #2590: chanat (pronounced khaw-nat')

a primitive root; to spice; by implication, to embalm; also to ripen:--embalm, put forth.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chânaṭ

1) to embalm, spice, make spicy (verb)

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to spice, make spicy

1a2) to embalm

2) (CLBL) to ripen

3) (BDB) embalming (noun masculine plural abstract)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 691

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 50:2: "his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed"
Genesis 50:2: "his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."
Genesis 50:3: "so are fulfilled of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days."
Genesis 50:26: "and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt."
Song of Solomon 2:13: "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give Arise,"