Original Word: νάρδος, ου, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: nardos
Phonetic Spelling: (nar'dos)
Definition: nard, ointment of nard
Usage: spikenard, a perfume made originally from a plant growing on the Himalayas.

3487 nárdos – nard (spikenard); an Indian plant, "the nardostachys nardus jatamansi, used for the preparation of a fragrant ointment; ointment of nard: Mk 14:3; Jn 12:3" (Abbott-Smith). When refined, nard is a "perfume, made originally from the 'Nardostachys Jatamansi' growing on the Himalayas" (Souter).

Word Origin
of foreign origin, cf. nerd
Definition
nard, ointment of nard
NASB Translation
nard (2).

STRONGS NT 3487: νάρδος

νάρδος, νάρδου, ἡ (a Sanskrit word (cf. Fick as in Löw below); Hebrew נֵרְדְּ, Song of Solomon 1:12; Song of Solomon 4:13f);

a. nard, the head or spike of a fragrant East Indian plant belonging to the genus Valeriana, which yields a juice of delicious odor which the ancients used (either pure or mixed) in the preparation of a most precious ointment; hence,

b. nard oil or ointment; so Mark 14:3; John 12:3. Cf. Winer, RWB under the word Narde; Rüetschi in Herzog x., p. 203; Furrer in Schenkel, p. 286f; (Löw, Aramäische Pflanzennamen (Leip. 1881), § 316, p. 368f; Royle in Alex.'s Kitto under the word Nerd; Birdwood in the 'Bible Educator' ii. 152).

spikenard.

Of foreign origin (compare nerd); "nard" -- (spike-)nard.

see HEBREW nerd

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