μύρον

μύρον — mýron

μύρον, μύρου, τό (the grammarians derive it from μύρῳ to flow, accordingly, a flowing juice, trickling sap: but probably more correct to regard it as an oriental word akin to μύρρα, Hebrew מֹר, מור; (Fick (i. 836) connects it with the root, smar, 'to smear', with which Vanicek, 1198f associates σμύρνα, μύρτος, etc.; cf. Curtius, p. 714)), ointment: Mat 26:7; Mat 26:9 Rec., 12; Mar 14:3-5; Luk 7:37; Luk 23:56; Joh 11:2; Joh 12:3; Joh 12:5; Rev 18:13; distinguished from ἔλαιον (which see and see Trench, Synonyms, § xxxviii.), Luk 7:46. ((From Aeschylus, Herodotus down); the Sept. for שֶׁמֶן, fat, oil, Pro 27:9; for טוב שֶׁמֶן, Psa 132:2.)