Definition

"myrrh", i.e. (by implication) perfumed oil

Etymology

probably of foreign origin (compare H04753, G4666 (σμύρνα));

Where the KJV renders it

• ointment

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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