Noun smyrna (myrrh) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Matthew

2: 11On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh (smyrna).

John

19: 39Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh (smyrna) and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.

Exodus (LXX)

30: 23Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh (smyrna) five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,

Psalms (LXX)

45 (44): 9 (8)Myrrh (smyrna), and oil of myrrh, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

Song of Songs (LXX)

3: 6Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh (smyrna) and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?
4: 6Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh (smyrna), and to the hill of frankincense.
4: 14spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh (smyrna), aloes, with all chief spices:
5: 1Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh (smyrna) with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.
5: 5I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh (smyrna), my fingers choice myrrh (smyrna), on the handles of the lock.
5: 13His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh (smyrna).

Sirach (LXX)

24: 15I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh (smyrna), as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.