Lexical Summary smyrna: myrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming) Original Word: σμύρναTransliteration: smyrna Phonetic Spelling: (smoor'-nah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: myrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming) Meaning: myrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming) Strong's Concordance myrrh. Apparently strengthened for muron; myrrh -- myrrh. see GREEK muron Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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). |
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