Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
"nard"
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
spikenard, a species of aromatic plant with grassy leaves and a fibrous root, of which the best and strongest grows in India; in NT oil of spikenard, an oil extracted from the plant, which was highly prized and used as an ointment either pure or mixed with other substances, Mk. 14:3; Jn. 12:3*
Translated in KJV as
(spike-)nard
Etymology
of foreign origin (compare H5373);
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