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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Myrrh  \Myrrh\,  n.  [OE.  mirre,  OF  mirre,  F.  myrrhe,  L.  myrrha, 
  murra,  Gr  ?;  cf  Ar  murr  bitter,  also  myrrh,  Heb.  mar 
  bitter.] 
  A  gum  resin,  usually  of  a  yellowish  brown  or  amber  color,  of 
  an  aromatic  odor,  and  a  bitter,  slightly  pungent  taste.  It  is 
  valued  for  its  odor  and  for  its  medicinal  properties.  It 
  exudes  from  the  bark  of  a  shrub  of  Abyssinia  and  Arabia,  the 
  {Balsamodendron  Myrrha}.  The  myrrh  of  the  Bible  is  supposed 
  to  have  been  partly  the  gum  above  named  and  partly  the 
  exudation  of  species  of  {Cistus},  or  rockrose. 
 
  {False  myrrh}.  See  the  Note  under  {Bdellium}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  myrrh 
  n  1:  aromatic  resin  used  in  perfume  and  incense  [syn:  {gum  myrrh}, 
  {sweet  cicely}] 
  2:  aromatic  resin  burned  as  incense  and  used  in  perfume  [syn:  {gum 
  myrrh}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Myrrh 
  Heb.  mor.  (1.)  First  mentioned  as  a  principal  ingredient  in  the 
  holy  anointing  oil  (Ex.  30:23).  It  formed  part  of  the  gifts 
  brought  by  the  wise  men  from  the  east,  who  came  to  worship  the 
  infant  Jesus  (Matt.  2:11).  It  was  used  in  embalming  (John 
  19:39),  also  as  a  perfume  (Esther  2:12;  Ps  45:8;  Prov.  7:17). 
  It  was  a  custom  of  the  Jews  to  give  those  who  were  condemned  to 
  death  by  crucifixion  "wine  mingled  with  myrrh"  to  produce 
  insensibility.  This  drugged  wine  was  probably  partaken  of  by  the 
  two  malefactors,  but  when  the  Roman  soldiers  pressed  it  upon 
  Jesus  "he  received  it  not"  (Mark  15:23).  (See  {GALL}.) 
 
  This  was  the  gum  or  viscid  white  liquid  which  flows  from  a 
  tree  resembling  the  acacia,  found  in  Africa  and  Arabia,  the 
  Balsamodendron  myrrha  of  botanists.  The  "bundle  of  myrrh"  in 
  Cant.  1:13  is  rather  a  bag"  of  myrrh  or  a  scent-bag. 
 
  (2.)  Another  word  _lot_  is  also  translated  myrrh"  (Gen. 
  37:25;  43:11;  R.V.,  marg.,  "or  ladanum").  What  was  meant  by  this 
  word  is  uncertain.  It  has  been  thought  to  be  the  chestnut, 
  mastich,  stacte,  balsam,  turpentine,  pistachio  nut,  or  the 
  lotus.  It  is  probably  correctly  rendered  by  the  Latin  word 
  ladanum,  the  Arabic  ladan,  an  aromatic  juice  of  a  shrub  called 
  the  Cistus  or  rock  rose,  which  has  the  same  qualities,  though  in 
  a  slight  degree,  of  opium,  whence  a  decoction  of  opium  is  called 
  laudanum.  This  plant  was  indigenous  to  Syria  and  Arabia. 
 




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