G3487

νάρδος

nardos

Feminine noun · Of foreign origin cf נרד (H5373)

Of foreign origin (compare H5373); "nard":—(spike-)nard.

Outline

nard, the head or spike of a fragrant East Indian plant belonging to the genus Valerianna, which yields a juice of delicious odour which the ancients used (either pure or mixed) in the preparation of a most precious ointment
nard oil or ointment

Usages

Mark 14:3

¶ 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.

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John 12:3

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.

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