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Greek noun (feminine) · G3487

νάρδος

nardosnar'dos

nard

2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nárdos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3487is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

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The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G3487

"nard"

The King James renders it: (spike-)nard.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

nardos is rendered "nard". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 14:3While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

The first use

While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

Mark 14:3νάρδου

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Mark.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • of nard2

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • νάρδου2

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF

Mark

one use
  • While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

    Mark 14:3

    • νάρδουnardounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of nard

John

one use
  • Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

    John 12:3

    • νάρδουnardounoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of nard

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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