EASTON’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1897 EDITION)
Apothecary – rendered in the margin and the Revised Version “perfumer,” in Ex. 30:25; 37:29; Eccl. 10:1.
The holy oils and ointments were prepared by priests properly qualified for this office.
The feminine plural form of the Hebrew word is rendered “confectionaries” in 1 Sam. 8:13.
