Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4753
מֹר
mormore
myrrh
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: môr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4753is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4753
myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
The King James renders it: myrrh.
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
mor is rendered "myrrh". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:23“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
Exodus 30:23מָר־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twelve uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- myrrh7
- the myrrh3
- myrrh my1
- myrrh of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מֹרָה | morah | bitterness | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings 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
- הַמּ֔וֹר1
- הַמֹּ֔ר1
- הַמֹּ֤ר׀1
- מוֹר֙1
- מ֗וֹר1
- מ֣וֹר1
- מ֥וֹר1
- מוֹרִי֙1
- מֹ֥ר1
- מֹ֚ר1
- מָר־1
- מֹר־1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
Exodus
one use
“Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
- מָר־mor-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: myrrh of
Esther
one use
In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.
- הַמֹּ֔רhamorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the myrrh
Psalms
one use
All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
- מֹר־mor-noun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
Proverbs
one use
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
- מֹ֥רmornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
Song of Solomon
eight uses
My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
- הַמֹּ֤ר׀hamorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the myrrh
Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, scented with myrrh and frankincense from all the spices of the merchant?
- מוֹר֙mornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- הַמּ֔וֹרhamorthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the myrrh
with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
- מֹ֚רmornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
- מוֹרִי֙morinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: myrrh my
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
- מ֗וֹרmornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
- מ֣וֹרmornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- מ֥וֹרmornoun · masculine singulartagged: myrrh
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.