myron · perfume

What it means

myron (μύρον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “perfume”.

Fragrant oil.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A costly fragrant oil for anointing.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• perfume ×10
• ointment ×3
• ointments ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×3
• Luke×4
• John×4
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 26:7

  a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.

• Matthew 26:12

  For in pouring this perfume on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

• Mark 14:3

  And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard, very costly; breaking the jar, she poured it over his head.

• Mark 14:4

  But there were some who were indignant among themselves: “Why has this waste of the ointment happened?

• Mark 14:5

  For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

• Luke 7:37

  And look, a woman who was a sinner in the town —and when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume,

• Luke 7:38

  and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she was wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.

• Luke 7:46

  You did not anoint my head with oil; but she has anointed my feet with perfume.

• Luke 23:56

  And they returned and prepared spices and ointments. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

• John 11:2

  It was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

• John 12:3

  Then Mary took a litra of perfume, pure nard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

• John 12:5

  “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

• Revelation 18:13

  and cinnamon and amomum and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and horses and carriages and bodies, and souls of human beings.

And 1 more times.