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Aloes, Lign-Aloes

Morrish Bible Dictionary

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The passages where aloes are mentioned clearly show that it was a highly odoriferous tree or wood, but it cannot be identified with certainty. Numbers 24:6; Psalm 45:8; Proverbs 7:17; Song of Solomon 4:14 . The ἀλόη was one of the perfumes which Nicodemus brought with which to embalm the body of our Lord. John 19:39 . The common aloes being of a disagreeable odour makes the identification of the above more difficult. The agallochum is the aloe-wood of more recent times.

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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Aloes, Lign-Aloes'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​mbd/​a/aloes-lign-aloes.html. 1897.
 
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