Ointment

Usually translated “fragrant oil”, “anointing oils” and “oil”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• fragrant oil 5
• of fragrant oil 4
• with fragrant oil 2
• anointing oils 1
• oil 1
• myrrh 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Luke 4
• Matthew 3
• John 3
• Mark 2
• Revelation 1

5 books in all.

• Ointment (mirqachat)
• Ointment pot/seasoning (merqachah)

• Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
• Matthew 26:12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
• Mark 14:3And 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.
• Mark 14:4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
• Luke 7:37And, 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,
• Luke 7:38And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “ointment” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.