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Strong's #250 - ἀλόη
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- aloe, aloes
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ἀλόη, ἡ,
1. bitter aloes, Aloe vera, Dsc. 3.22, Plu. 2.141f, etc.
2. = ἀγάλλοχον, LXX Ca. 4.15 (in Heb. form ἀλώθ), John 19:39.
3. ἀ. γαλλική, = γεντιανή, Ps.- Dsc. 3.3.
4. ἀ. ἡπατῖτις, hepatic aloes, Aloe Perryi, Gp. 6.6.2.
ἀλόη (on the accent see Chandler § 149), (ης, ἡ, (commonly ξυλαλόν, ἀγάλλοχον), Plutarch, "the aloe, aloes: John 19:39. The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead (as, according to Herodotus, the Egyptians did), Hebrew אֲהָלִים and אֲהָלות (see Muhlau and Volck under the words), Numbers 24:6; Psalm 45:9; Proverbs 7:17; Song of Solomon 4:14. Arabic:Alluwe; Linn.:Excoecaria Agallochum. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Aloe (Low § 235; BB. DD.).
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† ἀλόη , -ης , ἡ ,
[in LXX: א (H174)*;]
the aloe, aloes (the powder of a fragrant wood): John 19:39.†
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