| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) In the East Indies, an enclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc. 2. (v. t.) To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. 3. (v. t.) To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite. 4. (v. t.) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. 5. (v. t.) To compose; to constitute. 6. (v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. 7. (v. i.) To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration. 8. (v. t.) Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word. 9. (n.) That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition. 10. (n.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia COMPOSITION; COMPOUND kom-po-zish'-un, kom'-pound (mathkoneth, "measure"); (subst.) (raqach, "to make perfume," roqach, "perfume"): Used of the sacred anointing oil (Exodus 30:25, 32, 33) and of the holy perfume (Exodus 30:37, 38), which were not to be used for any profane purpose. | Multi-Version Concordance Compound (3 Occurrences) Exodus 30:25 You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT) Exodus 30:35 and thou hast made it a perfume, a compound, work of a compounder, salted, pure, holy; (YLT) Ezekiel 24:10 Make abundant the wood, Kindle the fire, consume the flesh, And make the compound, And let the bones be burnt. (YLT) |