Chanat חָנַט

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Chanat (Hebrew חָנַט, Strong's H2590) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to spice”. It occurs 5 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

v
1) to embalm, spice, make spicy
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to spice, make spicy
1a2) to embalm
2) (CLBL) to ripen

(BDB) embalming

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	embalmed (3), embalm (1), forth (1)
BSB	embalm (1), embalmed him (1), embalming (1), they embalmed (1), ripens (1)

Every verse with Chanat, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
Genesis 50:3
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.taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

Song of Solomon 2:13
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).