Dictionary entry

Apothecary

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-poth'-e-ka-ri: Found in English Versions of the Bible eight times in the Old Testament and Apocrypha for Hebrew word rendered more accurately "perfumer" by the Revised Version (British and American) inEx 30:25,35;37:29;Ec 10:1; though inconsistently retained elsewhere (2Ch 16:14the English Revised Version;Ne 3:8the English Revised Version (compare the margin); Sirach 38:8; 49:1). SeePERFUMER.