Myrrh vs Stacte - What's the difference?
myrrh | stacte |
(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)
One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
:And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte , and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between myrrh and stacte
is that myrrh is (uncountable) a red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species commiphora myrrha while stacte is one of the sweet spices used by the ancient jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.myrrh
English
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.
