STRONGS NUMBER G250


Word Summary
aloē: aloe
Original Word: ἀλόη
Transliteration: aloē
Phonetic Spelling: (al-o-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: aloe
Meaning: aloe
Strong's Concordance
aloes.

Of foreign origin (compare akanthinos); aloes (the gum) -- aloes.

see GREEK akanthinos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 250: ἀλόη

ἀλόη (on the accent see Chandler § 149), (ης, , (commonly ξυλαλόν, ἀγάλλοχον), Plutarch, "the aloe, aloes: John 19:39. The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood the Orientals used in fumigation and in embalming the dead (as, according to Herodotus, the Egyptians did), Hebrew אֲהָלִים and אֲהָלות (see Muhlau and Volck under the words), Numbers 24:6; Psalm 45:9; Proverbs 7:17; Song of Solomon 4:14. Arabic:Alluwe; Linn.:Excoecaria Agallochum. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Aloe (Low § 235; BB. DD.).