Thematic Bible: Used as a perfume
Thematic Bible
myrrh » Used as a perfume
All your robes [are scented with] myrrh and aloes [and] cassia. From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.
When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--
What [is] this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
His cheeks [are] like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips [are] lilies dripping liquid myrrh.