לֹט
lôṭ · H3910 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- MyrrhPerfumes29 verses
- Rock rose (ladanum)Ointment and balm (medicinal plants)2 verses
Meanings
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Ladanum
A fragrant sticky juice from the hairy leaves of a low shrub, Cistus laurifolius (rock rose), hardened and ground for medicine and perfume
ExamplesGenesis 37:25 Then they sat down to eat a meal. But as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels carrying labdanum resin, balsam, and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.
Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a gift, a little balsam and a little honey, labdanum resin and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- מֹר môr · H4753 · myrrh
- Both words denote myrrh, a specific aromatic substance; they are distinct Hebrew words for the same referent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spices001002005014
- לֹט denotes myrrh, a fragrant resin listed among the spices carried by the Ishmaelite traders in Genesis 37:25, placing it among aromatic goods.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3910. lot לֹט noun [masculine] myrrh, or 'ladanum' (Greek), an aromatic gum exuded by…
לֹט noun [masculine] myrrh, or 'ladanum' (Greek), an aromatic gum exuded by leaves of cistus-rose, cistus villosus, TristrFFP, 235, and especially Nat. Hist. Bib., 458 ff.; RiHWB 897, compare LöwNo. 79 DiGen 37:25 NowArchaeology i. 64 (Sabean לדן, SabDenkm84; Assyrian ladunu (from Damascus) compare SchrCOT Gen 37:25, MBAk. 1881, pp. 413 ff.; Arabic , whence Greek λήδανον, λάδανον Hdtiii. 112); — נְכאֹת וָלֹט וּצְרִי Gen 37:25, merchandise of Ishmaelite caravan, compare Gen 43:11, present to Joseph (both J; ᵐ5 στακτή).
לטא (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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