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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 Box Exo 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:23 - “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8 - your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 - What is that coming up from the wilderness
like columns of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:6 - Until the day breathes
and the shadows flee,
I will go away to the mountain of myrrh
and the hill of frankincense.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:14 - nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense,
myrrh and aloes,
with all choice spices—

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - He
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,
I gathered my myrrh with my spice,
I ate my honeycomb with my honey,
I drank my wine with my milk.

Others
Eat, friends, drink,
and be drunk with love!

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I arose to open to my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 - His cheeks are like beds of spices,
mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.
His lips are lilies,
dripping liquid myrrh.
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