Myrrh
לֹטStrong’s H3910lot
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lot is the Hebrew word usually translated “myrrh”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”
Meaning
- Myrrhan aromatic gum exuded by the leaves of the rock rose
How it's translated
- and myrrh 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
לֹט lot · myrrh
1) myrrh 1a) an aromatic gum exuded by the leaves of the rock rose
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “myrrh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MYRRH, noun
mer. [Latin myrrha.] A gum-resin that comes in the form of drops or globules of various colors and sizes, of a pretty strong but agreeable smell, and of a bitter taste. It is imported from Egypt, but chiefly from the southern or eastern parts of Arabia; from what species of tree or plant it is procured, is unknown. As a medicine, it is a good stomachic, antispasmodic and cordial.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.