Lexical Summary lot: myrrh Original Word: לֹטTransliteration: lot Phonetic Spelling: (lote) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: myrrh Meaning: a gum, ladanum Strong's Concordance myrrh Probably from luwt; a gum (from its sticky nature), probably ladanum -- myrrh. see HEBREW luwt Brown-Driver-Briggs H3910. lot לֹט noun [masculine] myrrh, or 'ladanum' (Greek), an aromatic gum exuded by leaves of cistus-rose, cistus villosus, TristrFFP, 235, and especially Nat. Hist. Bib., 458 ff.; RiHWB 897, compare LöwNo. 79 DiGenesis 37:25 NowArchaeology i. 64 (Sabean לדן, SabDenkm84; Assyrian ladunu (from Damascus) compare SchrCOT 37:25, MBAk. 1881, pp. 413 ff.; Arabic , whence Greek λήδανον, λάδανον Hdtiii. 112); — נְכאֹת וָלֹט וּצְרִי 37:25, merchandise of Ishmaelite caravan, compare 43:11, present to Joseph (both J; ᵐ5 στακτή). לטא (√ of following; meaning unknown). |
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