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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: 11 | On 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: 39 | Nicodemus, 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: 23 | Do 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: 6 | Who 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: 6 | Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh (smyrna), and to the hill of frankincense. |
4: 14 | spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh (smyrna), aloes, with all chief spices: |
5: 1 | Let 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: 5 | I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh (smyrna), my fingers choice myrrh (smyrna), on the handles of the lock. |
5: 13 | His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh (smyrna). |
Sirach (LXX)
24: 15 | I 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. |
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