מֹר
môr · more
myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מוֹר; from H4843 (מָרַר);
myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: myrrh.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › the head, the highest
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- myrrh4 · 33%
- of myrrh3 · 25%
- with myrrh3 · 25%
- smell of myrrh1 · 8%
- my myrrh1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.