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An essential oil extracted from myrrh (Commiphora myrrha) Myrrh is mentioned as a rare perfume in several places in the Hebrew Bible . In Genesis 37:25 , the traders to whom Jacob 's sons sold their brother Joseph had " camels ... loaded with spices, balm, and myrrh," and Exodus 30:23–25 specifies that Moses was to use 500 shekels of liquid ...
While sources agree about the identity of four of the five ingredients of anointing oil, the identity of the fifth, kaneh bosem, has been a matter of debate.The Bible indicates that it was an aromatic cane or grass, which was imported from a distant land by way of the spice routes, and that a related plant grows in Israel (kaneh bosem is referenced as a cultivated plant in the Song of Songs 4:14.
Myrrh in antiquity and classical times was seldom myrrh alone but was a mix of myrrh and some other oil. Stacte may have been light myrrh scented with benzoin (benzoin is described in section 2.1 below). According to Rosenmuller, stacte was myrrh and another oil mixed together. [24] One definition of "myrrh" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is ...
Glass vessel etched with the letters SC for sanctum chrisma containing chrism for the Roman Catholic Church.. Chrism, also called myrrh, myron, holy anointing oil, and consecrated oil, is a consecrated oil used in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian, Nordic Lutheran, Anglican, and Old Catholic churches in the administration of certain sacraments and ecclesiastical ...
The Bible records olive oil being applied to the sick and poured into wounds. [ n 2 ] [ 11 ] Known sources date from times when anointment already served a religious function ; therefore, anointing was also used to combat the malicious influence of demons in Persia , Armenia , and Greece . [ 2 ]
All three gifts are ordinary offerings and gifts given to a king. Myrrh being commonly used as an anointing oil, frankincense as a perfume, and gold as a valuable. The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death.
Oil of Saint Philomena. The Oil of Saints, also known as the Manna of the Saints, is "an aromatic liquid with healing properties" [1] or "holy water (very much like myrrh)" [2] which "is said to have flowed, or still flows, from the relics or burial places" [3] of certain Christian saints, who are known as myroblytes while the exudation itself is referred to as myroblysia [4] or myroblytism.
Nor is there anything to be had from the verse, ‘A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved’ (Song of Songs 1:13), that would negate the statement of him who says it is not musk, while our Rabbi Haye [Gaon], of blessed memory, in the commentary on [Tractate] Shabbath, says that it is the gum resin called in Arabic ‘lūbenī rahbān’ (= the ...