nardos - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3487 — yath in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3487 νάρδος (nardos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nardos (nar'-dos) n. 1. "nard" 2. spikenard, an aromatic plant which roots are used to make perfume It has 5 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include spikenard. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
nardos (nar'-dos) n. 1. "nard" 2. spikenard, an aromatic plant which roots are used to make perfume [of foreign origin] KJV: (spike-)nard Compare: H5373
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3487. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
nard
Usage: νάρδος, -ου, ἡ (Heb. נֵרְדְּ, both from Sanscrit narda, see Boisacq, see word), [in LXX: Sng.1:12 4:13-14 (נֵרְדְּ)* ;] nard; __(a) an Indian plant, the Nardostachys nardus jatamansi, used for the preparation of a fragrant ointment; __(b) ointment of nard: Mrk.14:3, Jhn.12:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nardos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3487 (νάρδος) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
So long as the king was at table, My spikenard gave forth its smell.
Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; Camphor, with spikenard:
Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon; With all woods of Lebanon, Myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3487.
So long as the king was at table, My spikenard gave forth its smell.
Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; Camphor, with spikenard:
Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon; With all woods of Lebanon, Myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3487, grouped by book.
Strong's G3487 is a Greek entry for G3487 νάρδος (nardos). nardos (nar'-dos) n. 1. "nard" 2. spikenard, an aromatic plant which roots are used to make perfume
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G3487 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3487 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as spikenard. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3487, with linked reader references where each row is available.