In the bible what was nard?

Question

In Luke 14:3 Jesus was anointed with perfume "made of pure nard". What was it and is it still around today?

Answer 1

Also improperly known as spikenard (from Latin spica, head of grain, and nardi), this hardy herb, a member of the Valerianaceae family, grows in the foothills of the Himalayas. The part of the plant growing underground has the appearance of a fibrous spindle, and is rich in the precious essential oil.

From India, nard traveled, in the form of a dry rhizome or oil phase extract, via Persia, under the name nardin.

Horace offered to send Virgil a whole barrel of his best wine in exchange for a phial of nard. Though nard is now rare on the shelves of the western perfumer, its name stood for centuries as an evocation of the perfume of the lost Garden of Eden, and in literature, nard came to refer to any perfume, as long as it was exquisite.

Pliny, in his Natural History, lists twelve species of nard, ranging from lavender stoechas and tuberous valerian to true nard – Nardostachys jatamansi. Price lists dating from this period suggest that this pure nard, with which Christ was anointed at Bethany, might already have been produced by a form of distillation.

By relating that it was contained in an alabaster flask, Mark (14,3) and Matthew (26,7) further underline the precious nature of the nard given to Christ.

In the Old Testament, nard is referred to in the Song of Songs, as a symbol of the intimate nature of the Bride’s love. This is the point at which relations with her beloved are initiated. When the perfume of nard is named, the bride recognizes her beloved as such.

It is in the Gospels that nard becomes a symbol of revelation during the anointment of Christ at Bethany.

Nard has intense, warm, fragrant, musky notes, similar to the aromas of humus. It exhibits a wide range of fragrances among the root-type perfumes.

Answer 2

Nard Definition

Answer 3

Nard is a fragrance made from the spike or stamens of a species of Valerian root it smells like spicy musk. It takes 6 tons of the rare Valerian stamen to produce an 8 oz alabaster container of essential oil!

It represents a whole year of hard work in the hot sun a full years wages. Today's value is the same as a pound of gold! 8 Oz's if spike nard essential oil would make 10 thousand bottles of old spice Cologne that smells like spike nard.

So the women that anointed Jesus with the perfume was likely a perfume producer who was giving Jesus a very costly funeral preparation using $ 20000 worth of oil!

Jesus certainly reeked of perfume from a mile away! And if he took a bath in one of the bath holes he perfumed the bath enough for thousands of others!.

Today spike of nard is hard to find and its used only for very costly perfume although many companies synthetic produce a similarly smelling odour.

Answer 4

Nard is the head or spike of an East Indian plant, very fragrant. Oh, by the way... it's John 12:3 or Mark 14:3. It only references it in Luke. Luke 7:37

Answer 5

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In the bible what was nard?
In Luke 14:3 Jesus was anointed with perfume "made of pure nard". What was it and is it still around today?

Answer 6

It is in the Gospels that nard becomes a symbol of revelation during the anointment of Christ at Bethany.

Nard has intense, warm, fragrant, musky notes, similar to the aromas of humus. It exhibits a wide range of fragrances among the root-type perfumes.
a member of the Valerianaceae family, grows in the foothills of the Himalayas. Nardostachys jatamasi

Answer 7

What Is Nard

Answer 8

Spike nard was one of the spices in the incense of Moses

Answer 9

I'm tempted to yes, and they ask questions on Yahoo answers but that would be just very nard of me. So I guess you could say I have no narding idea.

Answer 10

A nard is a type of flower.