Aloes

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Used as perfume

• Psalm 45:8 All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
• Proverbs 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
• Proverbs 4:14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

In embalming the dead

• John 19:39 Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

Lign-aloes

• Numbers 2:1–6 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron: “The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family. On the east side, toward the sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Judahite…