4666. smurna
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smurna: Myrrh

Original Word: σμύρνα
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: smurna
Pronunciation: SMOOR-nah
Phonetic Spelling: (smoor'-nah)
KJV: myrrh
NASB: myrrh
Word Origin: [apparently strengthened for G3464 (μύρον - perfume)]

1. myrrh

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
myrrh.

Apparently strengthened for muron; myrrh -- myrrh.

see GREEK muron

HELPS Word-studies

4666 smýrna – myrrh; a perfume used as incense and the symbol of romantic desire . . . because it becomes sweet when fired-up!

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
myrrh (used as an ointment and for embalming)
NASB Translation
myrrh (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4666: σμύρνα

σμύρνα, σμύρνης, , 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).

Forms and Transliterations
σμύρνα σμυρναν σμύρναν σμυρνης σμύρνης smurnan smurnes smurnēs smyrnan smýrnan smyrnes smyrnēs smýrnes smýrnēs
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 2:11 N-AFS
GRK: λίβανον καὶ σμύρναν
NAS: of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
KJV: frankincense, and myrrh.
INT: frankincense and myrrh

John 19:39 N-GFS
GRK: φέρων μίγμα σμύρνης καὶ ἀλόης
NAS: a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
KJV: a mixture of myrrh and
INT: bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes

Strong's Greek 4666
2 Occurrences


σμύρναν — 1 Occ.
σμύρνης — 1 Occ.

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