25 occurrences in 13 translations

'Perfume' in the Bible

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head while he sat at the table.

Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."

When she poured this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for burial.

While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?

This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,

and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume.

And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume,

There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume

and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

You didn't anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with perfume.

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne,

And the smoke and fragrant aroma of the incense, with the prayers of the saints (God’s people), ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
נוּף 
Nuwph 
Usage: 37

קטרת 
Q@toreth 
Usage: 60

רקּח 
Raqquach 
Usage: 1

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