Lexicon smurna: myrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming) Original Word: σμύρνα, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: smurna Phonetic Spelling: (smoor'-nah) Short Definition: myrrh Definition: myrrh. HELPS word-Studies 4666 smýrna – myrrh; a perfume used as incense and the symbol of romantic desire . . . because it becomes sweet when fired-up! NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionmyrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming) NASB Translationmyrrh (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4666: σμύρνασμύρνα, σμύρνης, ἡ, Hebrew מֹר, מור, myrrh, a bitter gum and costly perfume which exudes from a certain tree or shrub in Arabia and Ethiopia, or is obtained by incisions made in the bark: Matthew 2:11; as an antiseptic it was used in embalming, John 19:39. Cf. Herodotus 2, 40, 86; 3, 107; Theophrastus, hist. pl. 9, 3f; Diodorus 5, 41; Pliny, h. n. 12, 33f; ( BB. DD.; Birdwood in the ' Bible Educator', vol. ii., p. 151; Löw, Aram. Pflanzennam. § 185).
Strong's myrrh. Apparently strengthened for muron; myrrh -- myrrh. see GREEK muron |
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