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σμύρνα

smýrna · G4666 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. myrrh

    The aromatic resin of certain bushes

    Examples

    Matthew 2:11 And after they came into the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary; and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

    John 19:39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras weight.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
מֹר môr · H4753 · myrrh
Direct translation equivalent denoting the same aromatic resin (myrrh) used in perfumes, anointing oils, and burial spices.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Myrrh6.208
The noun names the aromatic resin used as a spice and in burial preparation. Matthew records that the magi, having found the child, “opened their treasures and presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh” (Matthew 2:11).
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

σμύρναsmýrna · G4666Σμύρνα Smýrna · G4667 · Smyrna, a place in Asia Minor · 2×σμυρνίζω smyrnízō · G4669 · myrrhed wine · 1×Σμυρναῖος Smyrnaîos · G4668 · a Smyrnæan · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon σμύρνης, ἡ, Hebrew מֹר, מור, myrrh, a bitter gum and costly perfume which exudes from a…
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: Mt 2:11; as an antiseptic it was used in embalming, Jn 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).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Perfumes and Incense2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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