Genesis 37:25
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Balm
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Ezekiel 27:17
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
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צְרִי
tsᵉrîy · tser-ee'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
distillation, i.e. balsam
Strong's KJV usage: balm.
Strong's first: Genesis 37:25Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:17
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H6875
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
H6875
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
H6875
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
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balm
B'ALM, noun bam.
1. The sap or juice of trees or shrubs remarkable odoriferous or aromatic.
2. Any fragrant or valuable ointment.
3. Anything which heals, or which soothes or mitigates pain.
4. In botany, the name of several plants, particularly of the genus Melissa. They are aromatic and used as corroborants.
Balm of Gilead. A plant of the genus Amyris. Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this plant is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca or of Syria. It has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm bitterish aromatic taste, and an acidulous fragrant smell. It is valued as an odoriferous unguent, and cosmetic, by the Turks, who possess the country of its growth, and hence it is adulterated for market.
B'ALM, verb transitive To anoint with balm or with any thing medicinal.
2. To soothe; to mitigate; to assuage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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