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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 - “But as for you, take for yourself the finest of spices: of flowing myrrh 500 shekels, and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, 250, and of fragrant cane 250,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:8 -

All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;

Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:6 -

“[fn]Who is this coming up from the wilderness

Like columns of smoke,

As rising incense of myrrh and frankincense,

With all scented powders of the 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 my way to the mountain of myrrh

And to 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 the trees of frankincense,

Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest [fn]spices.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 -

“[fn]I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;

I have picked my myrrh along with my balsam.

I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and [fn]imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

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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,

And my fingers with [fn]liquid myrrh,

On the handles of the lock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:13 -

“His cheeks are like a bed of spices,

Towers of sweet-scented herbs;

His lips are lilies

Dripping with liquid myrrh.

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