Lexical Summary aloē: aloe Original Word: ἀλόηTransliteration: aloē Phonetic Spelling: (al-o-ay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: aloe Meaning: aloe Strong's Concordance aloes. Of foreign origin (compare akanthinos); aloes (the gum) -- aloes. see GREEK akanthinos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 250: ἀλόηἀλόη (on the accent see Chandler § 149), (ης, ἡ, (commonly ξυλαλόν, ἀγάλλοχον), Plutarch, "the aloe, aloes: John 19:39. The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead (as, according to Herodotus, the Egyptians did), Hebrew אֲהָלִים and אֲהָלות (see Muhlau and Volck under the words), Numbers 24:6; Psalm 45:9; Proverbs 7:17; Song of Solomon 4:14. Arabic:Alluwe; Linn.:Excoecaria Agallochum. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Aloe (Low § 235; BB. DD.). |