. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . tic substance mentionedin Cant. i. 12, iv. 13, 14. The ointment with whichour Lord was anointed as He sat at meat in Simonshouse at Bethany consisted of this precious sub-stance (in margin of Mk. xiv. 3, pure nard, orliquid nard), the costliness of which may be in-ferred from the indignant surprise manifested bysome of the witnesses of the transaction (Mk. ; Jn. xii. 3, 5). Dr. Royle having ascertainedthat the jalamansee, one of the Hindoo synonyms forthe sunbul (Ar. =: Gr. nardos, Sir William Jones),was annually brought from the mountains ov
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . tic substance mentionedin Cant. i. 12, iv. 13, 14. The ointment with whichour Lord was anointed as He sat at meat in Simonshouse at Bethany consisted of this precious sub-stance (in margin of Mk. xiv. 3, pure nard, orliquid nard), the costliness of which may be in-ferred from the indignant surprise manifested bysome of the witnesses of the transaction (Mk. ; Jn. xii. 3, 5). Dr. Royle having ascertainedthat the jalamansee, one of the Hindoo synonyms forthe sunbul (Ar. =: Gr. nardos, Sir William Jones),was annually brought from the mountains overhang-ing the Ganges and Jumna Rivers down to the plains, 1 The name Balm of Gilead is commonly applied in theUnited States to a species of poplar, Populus candicans ofAiton (Woods Botany). 1060 SPI sri purchased some of these fresh roots and plantedthem in the botanic gardens at Saharunpore, in This plant, the Nardostachys Jatamansl ofDe Candolle, is evidently the nardos described byDioscorides under the name of the Ganges Spikenard (.VartfujfacAyj Jatamanri). It is allied to valerian, and is highly esteemedthroughout the East as a perfume and stimulantmedicine. The permanent, hair-like fibres of theleaf and footstalk give it some resemblance to thetail of an ermine, to which the Arabs have likenedit The name spikenard has also been given toother aromatic plants, in England to the AndropogonXardus of India, which is allied to lemon grass(Rekd 4), and in the United States to the Araliaracemosa, an herb with a thick root allied to gin-seng. Alabaster; Ointment; Perfumes. Spin Ding is mentioned in the Bible in Ex. , 26, and in Mat. vi. 28 and Lk. xii. 27. 19 implies (according to the A. V., Stuart,Fiirst, kc.) the use of the same instruments whichhave been in vogue for hand-spinning down to thepresent day, viz. the distaff (round which the flaxor wool for spinning was wound) and spindle (onwhich the yarn or thread was wound in spinning).The dist
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