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How to pronounce myrrh in English?

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Synonyms gum myrrh, sweet cicely
Type of gum resin

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In the Christmas story, the Three Wise Men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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Myrrh also is a resin from a plant native to Africa, India and the Middle East.
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Other substances added are myrrh, cinnamon, and balsam gum, to mention but a few.
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In John 19, Nicodemus arrived with myrrh and aloes to take care of Jesus'body.
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She then consecrated the pillar, anointing it with myrrh and wrapping it in linen.
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The Broncos gave the Raiders a gift the Magi would appreciate more than myrrh.
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When I was younger, I knew that gold was valuable, but why frankincense and myrrh?
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It was a rich, fertile land where precious stones, myrrh and incense abounded.
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A tree resin much like frankincense and myrrh, copal nuggets look like amber.
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  • Aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
  • Myrrh is the dried oleo gum resin of a number of Commiphora species of trees. Like frankincense, it is produced by the tree as a reaction to a purposeful wound through the bark and into the sapwood. The trees are bled in this way on a regular basis. ...
  • Myrrh is a folk album released in 1972 by Robin Williamson.
  • A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the Commiphora myrrha tree
  • To see myrrh in a dream, signifies your investments will give satisfaction. For a young woman to dream of myrrh, brings a pleasing surprise to her in the way of a new and wealthy acquaintance.
  • A gum used for perfume or incense, one of the gifts that the three wise men gave to Jesus
  • A gum resin produced from a bush found in Arabia and Eastern Africa.
  • Myrrh (Commiphora) was called ` _antyw_' in ancient Egypt .
  • Translates two Heb. words: (1) mor (cf. Arab. morr), the aromatic resin produced by Balsamodendron myrrha, Nees, which grows in Arabia and subtropical east Africa, was extensively used among the ancients, not only as a perfume (Ex., xxx, 23; Ps. xliv, 9; Prov., vii, 17; Cant. ...