Word Summary
aloē: aloe
Original Word: ἀλόηTransliteration: 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: ἀλόηἀλόη (on the accent see
Chandler § 149),
(ης,
ἡ, (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.).