Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
spices
Usage: ἄρωμα, -τος, τό [in LXX for בֶּשֶׂם ;] spice: Mrk.16:1, Luk.23:56 24:1, Jhn.19:40.† (AS)
Aroma means “aromatic” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H759 — armon (“castle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G759 ἄρωμα (aroma) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aroma (ar'-o-mah) n. 1. an aromatic [from G142 (in the sense of sending off scent)] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include sweet. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
aroma (ar'-o-mah) n. 1. an aromatic [from G142 (in the sense of sending off scent)] KJV: (sweet) spice Root(s): G142
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spices
Usage: ἄρωμα, -τος, τό [in LXX for בֶּשֶׂם ;] spice: Mrk.16:1, Luk.23:56 24:1, Jhn.19:40.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aroma, 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, New Testament, 1 Enoch, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G759 (ἄρωμα) appears 19 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.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Hezekiah rejoiced at them, and showed all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, the spices, and the fine oil, and the armory, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house, and in all his dominion.
And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
And some of the priests were makers of the ointment, and appointed to prepare the spices.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, And I yielded a pleasant odor like the best myrrh, As galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, And as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever:
of stacte, being like almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G759.
And Hezekiah rejoiced at them, and showed all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, the spices, and the fine oil, and the armory, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing which Hezekiah did not show them in his house, and in all his dominion.
And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
And some of the priests were makers of the ointment, and appointed to prepare the spices.
And the queen of Sheba heard of the name of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem with a very large force, to prove Solomon with hard questions, and she had camels bearing spices in abundance, and gold, and precious stones: and she came to Solomon, and told him all that was in her mind.
And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones: and there were not anywhere else such spices as those which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
And they buried him in the sepulcher which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled it with spices and all kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.
And Hezekiah had wealth and very great glory: and he made for himself treasuries of gold, and silver, and precious stones, also for spices, and stores for arms, and for precious vessels;
Now this was the time for a virgin to go in to the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months; for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women’s purifications.
And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: Thy name is ointment poured forth; Therefore do the young maidens love thee.
How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! How much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, And the smell of thy garments than all spices!
Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; And blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.
Let my kinsman come down into his garden, And eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; Yea, brethren, drink abundantly.
His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: His lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.
My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, To feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe Or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, And I yielded a pleasant odor like the best myrrh, As galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, And as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.
in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever:
of stacte, being like almond-trees. And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G759, grouped by book.
Aroma (Strong's G759) is a Greek word most simply glossed "aromatic". aroma (ar'-o-mah) n. 1. an aromatic [from G142 (in the sense of sending off scent)]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's G759 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G759 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sweet. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G759, with linked reader references where each row is available.