Myrrh vs Nard - What's the difference?
myrrh | nard |
(uncountable) A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha .
* 1916 , (James Joyce), (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)
A flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, flatulence, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.
A fragrant oil formerly much prized from the plant.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Mark XIV:
Spikenard
(plant or oil)
As a noun myrrh
is (uncountable) a red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species commiphora myrrha .As a verb nard is
.myrrh
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Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia myrrh)- The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
Derived terms
*nard
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) narde, from (etyl) nardus, from (etyl) .Noun
- there cam a woman with an alablaster boxe of oyntmenr, called narde , that was pure and costly, and she brake the boxe and powred it on his heed.