3464 - muron

Strong's Concordance

Original word: μύρον
Transliteration: muron
Definition (short): perfume
Definition (full): ointment

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: ointment
NASB Translation: ointment (1), perfume (12), perfumes (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Probably of foreign origin (compare more, smurna); "myrrh", i.e. (by implication) perfumed oil -- ointment.

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see GREEK smurna

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: For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
NASB: "For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.
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 there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
NASB: But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?
KJV: For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
NASB: "For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her.