noun · neuter
arōmem
Strong’sG759
spice, perfume
stem arōm-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄρωμα, -τος, τό,
[in LXX for בֹּשֶׂם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G759 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar'-o-mah
an aromatic
Fromfrom G142 (in the sense of sending off scent);
King James(sweet) spice.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἀρόω)
B arable land, corn-land, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | arōmem | arōmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | arōmeu | arōmeiu1×ἀρωμάτων |
| to, for dative | arōme | arōmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
arōme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
arōmeiu“spices”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
John 19:40… kai dala autem othoniei meta teiu arōmeiu, kathōs ethem atō toi Ioudaioi entafiazarō.… it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
arōmeim3×
Mark 16:1… tas tou Iakōbou kai Salōmas agorazala arōmeim hina ercharantais aleifaleia auton.… mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint …
Luke 23:56hupostrefarantais de hetoimazala arōmeim kai mureim. Kai tem men sabbatem …Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on …
Luke 24:1… tem mnēmem erchala ferarōntais heim hetoimazala arōmeim.… came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.