'Ointment' in the Bible

and make of it an oil of holy ointment, a perfume of perfumery after the work of the perfumer: it shall be the holy anointing oil.

And it was some one of the sons of the priests who compounded the ointment of the spices.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is the fruit of hearty counsel.

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to stink and ferment; so a little folly is weightier than wisdom and honour.

Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.

And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off, and didst debase thyself unto Sheol.

a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.

For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.

And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.

It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?