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Credit: איתן פרמן

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Comments: Styrax officinalis tree, Menashe hills of Israel.

 

Credit: Curtis Ward

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Comments: Possible contenders for stacte. Top left: Myrrh, natural exudation. Top right: Opobalsamum. Bottom left: Light pieces of myrrh mixed with dark pieces. Bottom right: Light myrrh treated with styrax benzoin.

 

Stacte or Storax. Styrax officinalis, Liquidambar orientalis. נטפnāṭāf - Strongs: H5198.

From Easton: Stacte - (Heb. nataph), one of the components of the perfume which was offered on the golden altar (Exodus 30:34; R.V. marg., "opobalsamum"). The Hebrew word is from a root meaning "to distil," and it has been by some interpreted as distilled myrrh. Others regard it as the gum of the storax tree, or rather shrub, the Styrax officinale. "The Syrians value this gum highly, and use it medicinally as an emulcent in pectoral complaints, and also in perfumery."

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  • Exodus 30:34
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/stacte.html. 2024.
 
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