(n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.TRAGACANTH

trag'-a-kanth: For "spicery" in Genesis 37:25, the Revised Version margin gives "gum tragacanth or storax."

See SPICE; STORAX.

5219. nekoth -- (a spice) perhaps tragacanth gum
... 5218b, 5219. nekoth. 5220 . (a spice) perhaps tragacanth gum. Transliteration:
nekoth Phonetic Spelling: (nek-ohth') Short Definition: gum. ...
/hebrew/5219.htm - 6kTragacanth (2 Occurrences)
... in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. TRAGACANTH. trag'-a-kanth: For "spicery ...
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Ladanum (2 Occurrences)
... down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan
of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam ...
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Balsam (10 Occurrences)
... down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan
of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam ...
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Spices (64 Occurrences)
... 27 2 Chronicles 2:4, we have qsToreth cammim, "incense of sweet spices." (3)
(nekho'th; thumiamata (Genesis 37:25, "spicery," margin "gum tragacanth or storax ...
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Spice (25 Occurrences)
... 27 2 Chronicles 2:4, we have qsToreth cammim, "incense of sweet spices." (3)
(nekho'th; thumiamata (Genesis 37:25, "spicery," margin "gum tragacanth or storax ...
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Spicery (2 Occurrences)
... Hebrews nechoth, identified with the Arabic naka'at, the gum tragacanth, obtained
from the astralagus, of which there are about twenty species found in ...
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Traffickers (9 Occurrences)

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Gum (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes,
but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the ...
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Tragedy (1 Occurrence)

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Pistacia-nuts (1 Occurrence)
... then so, do this: take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry
down the man a gift: a little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum ...
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