מור, Exod. xxx, 23; Esther ii, 12; Psalm xiv, 8; Prov. vii, 17;
Cant. i, 13; iii, 6; iv, 6, 14; v, 1, 5, 13; σμύρνα, Ecclus. xxiv, 15;
Matt. ii, Mark xv, 23; John xix, 39; a precious kind of gum issuing by
incision, and sometimes spontaneously, from the trunk and larger
branches of a tree growing in Egypt, Arabia, and Abyssinia. Its taste is
extremely bitter, but its smell, though strong, is not disagreeable; and
among the ancients it entered into the composition of the most costly
ointments. As a perfume, it appears to have been used to give a pleasant
fragrance to vestments, and to be carried by females in little caskets
in the bosoms. The magi, who came from the east to worship our Saviour
at Bethlehem, made him a present of myrrh among other things, Matt. ii,
11.
Cant. i, 13; iii, 6; iv, 6, 14; v, 1, 5, 13; σμύρνα, Ecclus. xxiv, 15;
Matt. ii, Mark xv, 23; John xix, 39; a precious kind of gum issuing by
incision, and sometimes spontaneously, from the trunk and larger
branches of a tree growing in Egypt, Arabia, and Abyssinia. Its taste is
extremely bitter, but its smell, though strong, is not disagreeable; and
among the ancients it entered into the composition of the most costly
ointments. As a perfume, it appears to have been used to give a pleasant
fragrance to vestments, and to be carried by females in little caskets
in the bosoms. The magi, who came from the east to worship our Saviour
at Bethlehem, made him a present of myrrh among other things, Matt. ii,
11.