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spices

Meaning of “spices”

Aromatic substances used for fragrance, anointing, burial, seasoning, or trade.

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31 occurrences29 verses12 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 43:11

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Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 5:13 · retained source text

His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe.

1611 marginal noteOr, towers of perfumes.

Song of Solomon 8:14
¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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1611 witness · Song of Solomon 8:14 · retained source text

¶ Make haste, my beloued, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a yong Hart vpon the mountaines of spices.

1611 marginal noteHeb. flee away.

Isaiah 39:2
And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the siluer, and the golde, and the spices, and the precious oyntment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

1611 marginal noteOr, spicery.

1611 marginal noteOr, iewels. heb. vessels or instruments.

Ezekiel 27:22
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 27:22 · retained source text

The merchants of Shebah and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy faires with chiefe of all spices, and with all precious stones and golde.

Mark 16:1
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.
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1611 witness · Mark 16:1 · retained source text

¶ And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Iames, and Salome, had bought sweete spices, that they might come and anoint him.

Luke 24:1
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.
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1611 witness · Luke 24:1 · retained source text

¶ Now vpon the first day of the weeke, very earely in the morning, they came vnto the Sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certaine others with them.

1611 marginal noteMat. 28.1.

John 19:40
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.
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1611 witness · John 19:40 · retained source text

Then tooke they the body of Iesus, & wound it in linnen clothes, with the spices, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie:

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