Strong's Lexicon
G250 — ἀλοή
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G250 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἀλοή |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | of foreign origin |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | aloe |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | al-o-ay' |
| Meaning: | 1. aloes (the gum) |
| KJV Renderings: | aloes |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀλόη (on the accent see Chandler § 149), (ης, ἡ, (commonly ξυλαλόν, ἀγάλλοχον), Plutarch, "the aloe, aloes: Joh 19:39. The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead (as, according to Herodotus, the Egyptians did), Hebrew àÂäÈìÄéí and àÂäÈìåú (see Muhlau and Volck under the words), Num 24:6; Psa 45:9; Pro 7:17; Son 4:14. Arabic:Alluwe; Linn.:Excoecaria Agallochum. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Aloe (Low § 235; BB. DD.).
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἀλόη (aloes)
John 19:39
- KJV: And there came also Nicodemus which at the first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes about an hundred pound
- GK: ήλθε δε και Νικόδημος ο ελθών προς τον Ιησούν νυκτός το πρώτον φέρων μίγμα σμύρνης και αλόης ως λίτρας εκατόν
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