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250. aloé

aloé: aloe
Original Word: ἀλόη, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: aloé
Phonetic Spelling: (al-o-ay')
Short Definition: aloes
Definition: aloes, the powdered fragrant aloe wood.

250 alóē – "The strongly aromatic, quick-drying sap of a tree (the Aquillaria) – mixed with myrrh and used for embalming" (BAGD); "the true aloe plant (Aloē succotrina Lam, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1:99).

250 (aloē) was used in ancient times for embalming fluid mixed with myrrh. Aloē is used in the Septuagint (S of Sol 4:14) as a "spice of love."

[It probably refers to an aromatic substance derived from the eaglewood tree (Aquilaria agallocha, ibid), CBL.]

Word Origin
of uncertain origin
Definition
aloe
NASB Word Usage
aloes (1).

STRONGS NT 250: ἀλόη

ἀλόη (on the accent see Chandler § 149), (ης, , (commonly ξυλαλόν, ἀγάλλοχον), Plutarch, "the aloe, aloes: John 19:39. The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead (as, according to Herodotus, the Egyptians did), Hebrew אֲהָלִים and אֲהָלות (see Muhlau and Volck under the words), Numbers 24:6; Psalm 45:9; Proverbs 7:17; Song of Solomon 4:14. Arabic:Alluwe; Linn.:Excoecaria Agallochum. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Aloe (Low § 235; BB. DD.).



aloes.

Of foreign origin (compare akanthinos); aloes (the gum) -- aloes.

see GREEK akanthinos

ἀλλοτρίῳ — 4 Occ.
ἀλλοτρίων — 4 Occ.
ἀλλοτρίοις — 1 Occ.
ἀλλότριον — 2 Occ.
ἀλλοφύλῳ — 1 Occ.
ἄλλως — 1 Occ.
ἀλοῶν — 1 Occ.
ἀλοῶντα — 2 Occ.
ἄλογα — 2 Occ.
ἄλογον — 1 Occ.
ἀλὶ — 1 Occ.
ἁλυκὸν — 1 Occ.
ἀλυπότερος — 1 Occ.
ἁλύσει — 2 Occ.
ἁλύσεις — 2 Occ.
ἁλύσεσι — 1 Occ.
ἁλύσεσιν — 3 Occ.
ἅλυσιν — 3 Occ.
ἀλυσιτελὲς — 1 Occ.
Ἁλφαίου — 5 Occ.


Strong's Greek 250
1 Occurrence


ἀλόης — 1 Occ.

John 19:39 N-GFS
BIB: σμύρνης καὶ ἀλόης ὡς λίτρας
NAS: of myrrh and aloes, about
KJV: of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred
INT: of myrrh and aloes about litras

1 Occurrence


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