what is myhhr given by one of the magi Christ's birth?

Answer 1

It is a tree sap. It smells very bitter (as in the verse of the We Three Kings song, which says "Myrrh I bring/ it's bitter perfume") but they make perfume and things out of it, and it was considered very valuable.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


MYRRH (check your spelling please) is a red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the tree Commiphora myrrha, native to Somalia and the eastern parts of Ethiopia. The sap of a number of other Commiphora and Balsamodendron species are also known as myrrh, including that from Commiphora erythraea (sometimes called East Indian myrrh), Commiphora opobalsamum and Balsamodendron kua. Its name is derived from the Hebrew murr or maror, meaning "bitter".

Myrrh is currently used in some liniments, healing salves that may be applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments. It is also used in the production of Fernet Branca.

Myrrh is a constituent of perfumes and incense, was highly prized in ancient times, and was often worth more than its weight in gold. In ancient Rome myrrh was priced at 5 times as much as frankincense, though the latter was far more popular. Myrrh was burned in ancient Roman funerals to mask the smell emanating from charring corpses. It was said that the Roman Emperor Nero burned a year's worth of myrrh at the funeral of his wife, Poppaea.

Answer 3

According to my Pastor, it was the Magi's sign of the forthcoming death of Jesus and so a sign of his greatest act, the redemption of humanity. According to "Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible," however, it is also a narcotic used in ancient times to sedate children and thus free mothers from some amount of their responsibilities.

Answer 4

It's a well-odored perfume which can heal.

Answer 5

i could be wrong, but i was under the assumption it was a really, really expensive perfume

Answer 6

I don't know where it comes from, but here's what it's supposed to be good for-