'Myrrh' in the Bible

“Take for yourself the finest spices: 12½ pounds of liquid myrrh, half as much (6¼ pounds) of fragrant cinnamon, 6¼ pounds of fragrant cane,

During the year before each young woman’s turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

Myrrh, aloes, and cassia perfume all your garments;from ivory palaces harps bring you joy.

I’ve perfumed my bedwith myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

My love is a sachet of myrrh to me,spending the night between my breasts.

N What is this coming up from the wildernesslike columns of smoke,scented with myrrh and frankincensefrom every fragrant powder of the merchant?

Before the day breaksand the shadows flee,I will make my way to the mountain of myrrhand the hill of frankincense.

nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,with all the trees of frankincense,myrrh and aloes,with all the best spices.

M I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.I gather my myrrh with my spices.I eat my honeycomb with my honey.I drink my wine with my milk.N Eat, friends!Drink, be intoxicated with love!

I rose to open for my love.My hands dripped with myrrh,my fingers with flowing myrrhon the handles of the bolt.

His cheeks are like beds of spice,towers of perfume.His lips are lilies,dripping with flowing myrrh.

Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary His mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it.

Nicodemus (who had previously come to Him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.

cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves and human lives.