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Genesis 37:25

And they are sitting to eat bread, and they are lifting up their eyes, and are seeing, and behold, a traveling-company of El-Hears-ites, she-who-comes from Witness-Heap, and their camels are those-who-lift-up a smitten-one,1173 and a lumped-one,1174 and a wrapped-one,1175 going to take them down to Dual-Strait.

Footnote:

1173

Strong’s #5219, נְכאת nekot, noun fem. something smitten to powder. “a pounding, breaking in pieces, hence aromatic powder, which from being a general name, became applied to some particular kind of aromatic.” – Gesenius. See #5218 and #5217 nake נְכא to smite, scourge, which is also derived from this root. #5218 is interpreted as an adjective smitten. This however seems incorrect as participle verb would likely be used as seen in Psalm 109:16, נִכְאֵ֨ה he-who-is-smitten. Thus, a smiting wind as opposed to a “broken heart”:

“A merry heart is creating-good, a cure, and a smiting [nake] wind is drying-up a bone.” Prov. 17:22 literal