nardas

Strong’sG3487

spikenard, a perfume

stem nard-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.

νάρδος, -ου, ἡ

(Heb. נֵרְדְּ, both from Sanscrit narda, v. Boisacq, s.v.), [in LXX: Ca 1:12 4:13, 14 (נֵרְדְּ)*;]

nard;

(a) an Indian plant, the Nardostachys nardus jatamansi, used for the preparation of a fragrant ointment;

(b) ointment of nard: Mk 14:3, Jo 12:3.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3487 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidnar'dos

"nard"

Fromof foreign origin (compare );

King James(spike-)nard.

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

νάρδος, ἡ,
spikenard, Nardostachys Jatamansi, NT+4th c.BC+; compare {ναρδόσταχυς}
2 ν. Κελτική Celtic nard, Valeriana celtica, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 ν. ὀρεινή or ὀρεία mountain nard, Valeriana Dioscoridis, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 ν. Συριακή Syrian nard, Cymbopogon Iwarancusa, Refs 1st c.AD+
5 νάρδου ῥίζα ginger grass, Cymbopogon Schoenanthus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
6 ν. ἀγρία, ={ἄσαρον}, Refs 1st c.AD+
II oil of spikenard, Refs 3rd c.BC+. (Semitic word, cf. Bab. lardu.)

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.

nard2×

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 nominative	nardas	nardais
object accusative	nardan	nardain
direct address vocative	nardar	nardair
of, belonging to genitive	nardau2×νάρδου	nardaiu
to, for dative	narda	nardai

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

nardstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

narda 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.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

nardau“nard”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Mark 14:3… autou erchata gunaikas echarōntas alabastran mureu nardau pistikau polutelau; suntribarantas tan alabastran katachata …… of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and …

John 12:3tas oun Mariam labarantas litran mureu nardau pistikau polutimau aleifata toin podoin tou …… of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and …