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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - σμύρνα

σμύρνα

G4666

Transliteration: smýrna

Pronunciation: smoor'-nah

Definition: myrrh


- Original: σμύρνα

- Transliteration: Smurna

- Phonetic: smoor'-nah

- Definition:

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

- Origin: apparently strengthened for G3464" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3464

- TDNT entry: 14:37,1

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Apparently strengthened for G3464" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3464; myrrh: - myrrh.


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