What Is Myrrh in the Bible?
Plant
A tree resin with a fine smell, bitter and very costly. The Magi gave it to Jesus as a gift.
A detail
- For the dead: the body of Jesus was perfumed with myrrh and aloes before he was buried.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 2:11; John 19:39
What the Bible says
Matthew 2:11
And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came, (he who at the first came to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “mirra”; John 19:39