G4666
G4666 — σμύρνα
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
smurna (smoor'-nah) n.
1. myrrh
[apparently strengthened for G3464]
KJV: myrrh
Root(s): G3464
TWOT
Not assigned in current lawful mapping.
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KJV Renderings
myrrh
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σμύρνα, σμύρνης, ἡ, Hebrew îÉø, îåø, 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: Mat 2:11; as an antiseptic it was used in embalming, Joh 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; Lצw, Aram. Pflanzennam. § 185).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
σμύρνα (myrrh)
Matthew 2:11
- KJV: And when they were come into the house they saw the young child with Mary his mother and fell down and worshipped him and when they had opened their treasures they presented unto him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh
- GK: και ελθόντες εις την οικίαν είδον το παιδίον μετά Μαρίας της μητρός αυτού και πεσόντες προσεκύνησαν αυτώ και ανοίξαντες τους θησαυρούς αυτών προσήνεγκαν αυτώ δώρα χρυσόν και λίβανον και σμύρναν
John 19:39
- KJV: And there came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound
- GK: ήλθε δε και Νικόδημος ο ελθών προς τον Ιησούν νυκτός το πρώτον φέρων μίγμα σμύρνης και αλόης ως λίτρας εκατόν