UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: σμῆγμα; -τος

Sense 1: aloes, aromatic salves, perfumed ointment

Semantic entry: 6.207

Semantic domains: Artifacts

Subdomains: Perfumes and Incense

Definition: an aromatic resin of a lily-like plant, often used for embalming a corpse

Notes: This word is found as a variant reading only: φέρων σμῆγμα σμύρνης καὶ ἀλόης ‘bringing perfumed ointment of myrrh and aloes’ OET JHN 19:39 (apparatus).

Further resources: realia:4.8.3.1

Show passage in OET: JHN 19:39

OET-RV JHN 19:39

39 Nikodemos (the one who had first visited Yeshua at night) also came, bringing around 30kg of burial spices.

OET-LV JHN 19:39

39 And Nikodaʸmos also came, the one having _come to him at _the first by _night, bringing a_wrapping of _myrrh and aloe, about a_hundred pounds.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

σμῆγμα

Form 1

Sense 1: aloes, aromatic salves, perfumed ointment