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Lexicon :: Strong's G4666 - smyrna

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σμύρνα
Transliteration
smyrna (Key)
Pronunciation
smoor'-nah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently strengthened for μύρον (G3464)
mGNT
2x in 2 unique form(s) TR
2x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
9x in 3 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:457,1055

Strong’s Definitions

σμύρνα smýrna, smoor'-nah; apparently strengthened for G3464; myrrh:—myrrh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G4666 in the following manner: myrrh (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G4666 in the following manner: myrrh (2x).

  1. 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: as an antiseptic it was used for embalming

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σμύρνα smýrna, smoor'-nah; apparently strengthened for G3464; myrrh:—myrrh.
STRONGS G4666:
σμύρνα, 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).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:11
John
19:39

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4666 matches the Greek σμύρνα (smyrna),
which occurs 9 times in 8 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh 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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8 - (LXX 44:9) Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia are exhaled from thy garments, and out of the ivory palaces,

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 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 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 - His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.
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