STRONGS G3464:
μύρον,
μύρου,
τό (the grammarians derive it from
μύρῳ to flow, accordingly, a flowing juice, trickling sap: but probably more correct to regard it as an oriental word akin to
μύρρα, Hebrew
מֹר,
מור; (
Fick (i. 836) connects it with the root, smar, 'to smear', with which
Vanicek, 1198f associates
σμύρνα,
μύρτος, etc.; cf.
Curtius, p. 714)),
ointment:
Matthew 26:7,
9 Rec., 12;
Mark 14:3-5;
Luke 7:37;
Luke 23:56;
John 11:2;
John 12:3,
5;
Revelation 18:13; distinguished from
ἔλαιον (which see and see
Trench, Synonyms, § xxxviii.),
Luke 7:46. ((From
Aeschylus,
Herodotus down); the
Sept. for
שֶׁמֶן, fat, oil,
Proverbs 27:9; for
טוב שֶׁמֶן,
Psalm 132:2 (
Psalms 133:2).)
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