Strong's Concordance
Original word: ἀλάβαστρον
Transliteration: alabastron
Definition (short): vial
Definition (full): a box of alabaster
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of foreign origin
Definition: a box of alabaster
NASB Translation: alabaster vial (3), vial (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Neuter of alabastros (of uncertain derivation), the name of a stone; properly, an "alabaster" box, i.e. (by extension) a perfume vase (of any material) -- (alabaster) box.
References
KJV:
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
NASB:
a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.
KJV:
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.
NASB:
While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.
KJV:
And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
NASB:
And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,