Exo 30:23-37, 40:12-15 | TSK | STEP | thee principal. pure myrrh.Myrrh is a white gum, issuing from the trunk and larger branches of a thorny tree resembling the acacia, growing in Arabia, Egypt, and Abyssinia. Its taste is extremely bitter; but its smell, though strong, is agreeable; and it entered into the composition of the most costly ointments among the ancients. The epithet {deror,} rendered pure, properly denotes fluid, from the Arabic {darra,} to flow; by which is meant the finest and most excellent kind, called {stacte,} which issues of itself from the bark without incision. cinnamon.{Kinnamon bosem,} odoriferous or spicy cinnamon, is the bark of the canella, a small tree of the size of a willow growing in the island of Ceylon. sweet calamus.{Kenaih bosem,} {calamus aromaticus,} or odoriferous cane, is a reed growing in Egypt, Syria, and India, about two feet in height, bearing from the root a knotted stalk, quite round, containing in its cavity a soft white pith. It is said to scent the air while growing; and when cut down, dried, and powdered, makes an ingredient in the richest perfumes.

Exodus 30:23-37

thee principal.

37:29; Ps 45:8; Pr 7:17; So 1:3,13; 4:14; Jer 6:20; Eze 27:19,22

pure myrrh.Myrrh is a white gum, issuing from the trunk and larger branches of a thorny tree resembling the acacia, growing in Arabia, Egypt, and Abyssinia. Its taste is extremely bitter; but its smell, though strong, is agreeable; and it entered into the composition of the most costly ointments among the ancients. The epithet {deror,} rendered pure, properly denotes fluid, from the Arabic {darra,} to flow; by which is meant the finest and most excellent kind, called {stacte,} which issues of itself from the bark without incision.

cinnamon.{Kinnamon bosem,} odoriferous or spicy cinnamon, is the bark of the canella, a small tree of the size of a willow growing in the island of Ceylon.

sweet calamus.{Kenaih bosem,} {calamus aromaticus,} or odoriferous cane, is a reed growing in Egypt, Syria, and India, about two feet in height, bearing from the root a knotted stalk, quite round, containing in its cavity a soft white pith. It is said to scent the air while growing; and when cut down, dried, and powdered, makes an ingredient in the richest perfumes.

cassia.

Ps 45:8

the shekel.

Nu 3:47; Eze 45:12

hin.

29:40; Le 19:36; Nu 15:5

apothecary. or, perfumer.

1Ch 9:30

an holy.

37:29; Nu 35:25; Ps 89:20; 133:2; Heb 1:9

40:9-15; Le 8:10-12; Nu 7:1,10; Isa 61:1; Ac 10:38; 2Co 1:21,22

1Jo 2:20,27

whatsoever.

29:37; Le 6:18; Mt 23:17,19

anoint.

29:7-37; 40:15; Le 8:12,30; Nu 3:3

consecrate.

28:3; 29:9,35

an holy.

37:29; Le 8:12; 21:10; Ps 89:20

man's.

Le 21:10; Mt 7:6

it is.

25,37,38

compoundeth.

38; Lu 12:1,2; Heb 10:26-29

a stranger.

29:33

cut off.

12:15,19; Ge 17:14; Le 7:20,21; 17:4,9; 19:8; 23:29; Nu 9:13

unto thee.

23; 25:6; 37:29

stacte. Heb. nataph.The Jews and others suppose it to be what was afterwards called the balm of Jericho, or Gilead.

onycha.The word {shechaileth} is generally allowed to denote onycha, (nail-fish, from its form,) as it is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate. It is the shell of the purpura, and of the whole class of murex; and serves as the basis of the principal perfumes in India.

galbanum.{Chelbenah,} (probably from {chalay,} milk or gum, and {lavan,} white,) is the gummy, resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, the {bubon gumniferum} of Linnæus, growing in Syria, Persia, and Africa. It rises with a ligneous stalk from eight to ten feet, and is garnished with leaves at every joint. The top of the stalk is terminated by an umbel of yellow flowers which are succeeded by oblong channelled seeds, which have a thin membrane or wing on their border. When any part of the plant is broken, there issues out a little thin juice, of a cream colour, of a fat, tough substance, like gum ammoniac, composed of many small, shining grains, of a strong, piercing smell and a sharp, warm taste.

frankincense.

Le 2:1,15; 5:11; 24:7; 1Ch 9:29,30; Ne 13:5; So 3:6; Mt 2:11

perfume.

Pr 27:9; So 1:3; 3:6; Joh 12:3

after the.

tempered. Heb. salted.

Le 2:13

the testimony.

16:34

where I will.

6; 25:22; 29:42,43; Le 16:2

ye shall.