Spikenard
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Spikenard in the Bible Dictionary
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An aromatic plant
Song 4:13, 14
13 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Song of Solomon 4:1314 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
Song of Solomon 4:14 -
Perfume prepared from
Song 1:12
12 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Song of Solomon 1:12 -
A fragrant oil from, used for anointing
Mark 14:3; John 12:3
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Mark 14:33 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
John 12:3
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
