Mark 14:5:5Mark.14.5.W5TAB
μύρον
myron
“ointment”
- Transliteration
- MY-ron
- Extended
- MY-rohn
- IPA
- /ˈmy.ron/
Meaning by language
- English
- ointment
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
MY-ron
- sentence
ê-DY-na-to gar TOU-to to MY-ron pra-THÊ-nai e-PA-nô dê-na-RI-ôn tri-a-ko-SI-ôn kai do-THÊ-nai tois ptō-KHOIS kai e-ne-bri-MÔN-to au-TÊ
Exegesis
The demonstrative touto combined with the article and noun, touto to myron {τοῦτο τὸ μύρον | toû-to tò mý-ron}, forms a marked noun phrase, “this ointment,” which functions as the subject of the infinitival construction.
Root and etymology
smyrnasigma–mu–upsilon–rho–nu–alpha
“myrrh, aromatic resin”
In context — Mark 14:5
For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor ; and they began to scold her .
About this coordinate
Mark 14:5:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Mark 14:5, so the Greek word μύρον (myron) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Mark.14.5.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.14.5.W5.S1) and character.