Nard vs Nart - What's the difference?
nard | nart |
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 nard
is 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.As a contraction nart is
form of Contraction|ne art|lang=en.nard
English
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.