'Nard' in the Bible

The Beloved about Her Lover: While the king was at his banqueting table, my nard gave forth its fragrance.

Your shoots are a royal garden full of pomegranates with choice fruits: henna with nard,

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)