What does ἀλόη (alóē) mean in the Bible?
ἀλόη (alóē): Aromatic aloe wood powder used for burial embalming, signifying expensive honor and respect for the deceased.
Greek · G250
ἀλόη
ἀλόη (alóē): Aromatic aloe wood powder used for burial embalming, signifying expensive honor and respect for the deceased.
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ἀλόηG250
Pronunciationalóē
What does ἀλόη (alóē) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G250?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include aloes (1).
Where does ἀλόη (alóē) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at John 19:39. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Italoes1×John 19:39
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First aligned rowJohn 19:39
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
John1
Source forms
ἀλόης1xaloēsJohn 19:39
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xJohn 19:39
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Aromatic aloe wood powder used for burial embalming, signifying expensive honor and respect for the deceased.
Strong'sG250
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
aloes (the gum)
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Aromatic aloe wood powder used for burial embalming, signifying expensive honor and respect for the deceased.
the aloe, aloes (the powder of a fragrant wood): Jhn.19:39.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
John 19:39Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
ἀλόηςalohv
aloes
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineJohn 19:391×
Word Origins
ἀλόη is built from this root:
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