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the physicians: The Hebrew ropheim, from rapha, to heal, is literally the healers, those whose business it was to heal, or restore the body from sickness, by administering proper medicines; and when death took place, to heal or preserve it from decomposition by embalming. The word chanat, to embalm, is also used in Arabic to express the reddening of leather; somewhat analogous to our tanning; which is probably the grand principal in embalming.
embalmed: Gen 50:26; 2Ch 16:14; Mat 26:12; Mar 14:8, Mar 16:1; Luk 24:1; Joh 12:7, Joh 19:39-40