μύρον muron

Greek word for “ointment” · Strong’s G3464 · used 14 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

μύρον, -ου, τό; ointment:, 23:56, 12:3, 5.†; SYN.: ἔλαιον, q.v

How it is translated

Glosses given for muron in context, with how often each is used:

• fragrant oil 11
• anointing oils 1
• oil 1
• myrrh 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 14 (3), Luke 7 (3), Matthew 26 (2), John 12 (2), Luke 23 (1), John 11 (1), Revelation 18 (1)

Forms

• μύρου 6
• μύρον 4
• μύρῳ 3
• μύρα 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with muron more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀλείφω aleiphō “to anoint” 4
• ἀλάβαστρον alabastron “jar” 3
• ἐκμάσσω ekmassō “to wipe off” 3
• κεφαλή kephalē “head” 4
• θρίξ thrix “hair” 3
• πούς pous “foot” 4
• καταχέω katacheō “to pour” 2
• νάρδος nardos “nard” 2
• πιστικός pistikos “pure” 2
• τριακόσιοι triakosioi “three hundred” 2
• οἰκία oikia “home” 3
• πιπράσκω pipraskō “to sell” 2

Key verses

The verses using muron that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 26:7 — There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
• Matthew 26:12 — For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
• Mark 14:3 — And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and…
• Mark 14:5 — For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
• Luke 7:37 — And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
• Luke 7:38 — And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and…
• Luke 7:46 — My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
• Luke 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
• John 11:2 — (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
• John 12:3 — Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with…
• John 12:5 — Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
• Revelation 18:13 — And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.