KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of embalm, meaning to preserve a dead body.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 50:2
Complete exact-word concordance
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
And Ioseph commanded his seruants the physicians to imbalme his father: and the physicians imbalmed Israel.
And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
And fortie dayes were fulfilled for him, (for so are fulfilled the dayes of those which are imbalmed) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten dayes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wept.
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
So Ioseph died, being an hundred and ten yeeres old: and they imbalmed him, and he was put in a coffin, in Egypt.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Filled with aromatic plants for preservation; preserved from loss or destruction.
