Can anyone please tell me about "Spikenard?"?

Answer 1

ohh! pick me! i did a paper on it at college!

its similar to lavender and we intended for the burial of only the royal. it was incredibly expensive- the passage in.. um.. John 12 (?) where the woman put it on the feet of Jesus, the amount used wouldve cost her $6000 american dollars today. remember, she was a single woman who was prohibited from working, so how she got this is totally a God thing!!! (i love this passage so much, can you tell?!) the best part is:: she KNEW Christ was royalty (!) and she believe and KNEW he came here to die (!) she used ALLLLLLL her money to buy this stuff, and put it on his feet. the culture back then was that feet were the most loathed part of the body (when you bowed to someone higher up than you, you bowed at their feet!)

GAH! i love this stuff. Gods word is AMAZING!!!

Answer 2

On the The Church Of God Daily Bible Study...

Spikenard, or nard, was an expensive spice used to make perfume. It was obtained from an Indian plant, found in the Himalaya mountains, the Nardostachys jatamansi. Spikenard is mentioned twice in the New Testament involving the anointing of Jesus Christ by a woman. While they appear, at first glance, to be the same incident (both in Bethany just before Christ's crucifixion), there are differences in them (e.g. Mark has it two days before Passover, after the Triumphal Entry; John has it six days before Passover, before the Triumphal Entry) that indicate that it occurred twice, perhaps the second woman doing it after hearing of the first one, or the first woman, Mary the sister of Lazarus, doing it twice.

This I found on http://www.keyway.ca/htm2004/20040127.htm

Hope it helps?

Also....

Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora; also called nard, nardin, and muskroot) is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.

For more info check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikenard

Answer 3

Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora; also called nard, nardin, and muskroot) is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.

Answer 4

Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora; also called nard, nardin, and muskroot) is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.

Lavender (genus Lavandula) was also known by the ancient Greeks as naardus, nard, after the Syrian city Naarda.

The oil was known in ancient times and was part of the Ayurvedic herbal tradition of India. It was obtained as a luxury in ancient Egypt, the Near East, and Rome, where it was the main ingredient of the perfume nardinium. Pliny's Natural History lists twelve species of "nard", identifiable with varying assurance, in a range from lavender stoechas and tuberous valerian to true nard, (in modern terms Nardostachys jatamansi).

Nard is mentioned twice in the biblical love poem, the Song of Solomon (1:12 and 4:13). In Mark 14:3 and John 12:3, Mary, sister of Lazarus uses nard ointment to anoint the head and the feet of Jesus. Earlier in Jesus' ministry (Luke 7:37-50), an unnamed "sinful" woman also anoints him with costly perfume in an alabaster jar, which indicates that was most likely nard. A jar of spikenard in their society was very expensive--"worth a year's wages" (John 12:5).

Today, oil of spikenard is not used as widely as that of its many valerian relatives.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikenard)

Answer 5

s a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments

Answer 6

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Dipsacales

Family: Valerianaceae

Genus: Nardostachys

Species: N. grandiflora


Binomial name
Nardostachys grandiflora
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Spikenard (Nardostachys grandiflora; also called nard, nardin, and muskroot) is a flowering plant of the Valerian family that grows in the Himalayas of China, India and Nepal. The plant grows to about 1 m in height and has pink, bell-shaped flowers. Spikenard rhizomes (underground stems) can be crushed and distilled into an intensely aromatic amber-colored essential oil, which is very thick in consistency. Nard oil is used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine said to fight insomnia, birth difficulties, and other minor ailments.

Lavender (genus Lavandula) was also known by the ancient Greeks as naardus, nard, after the Syrian city Naarda.

The oil was known in ancient times and was part of the Ayurvedic herbal tradition of India. It was obtained as a luxury in ancient Egypt, the Near East, and Rome, where it was the main ingredient of the perfume nardinium. Pliny's Natural History lists twelve species of "nard", identifiable with varying assurance, in a range from lavender stoechas and tuberous valerian to true nard, (in modern terms Nardostachys jatamansi).

Nard is mentioned twice in the biblical love poem, the Song of Solomon (1:12 and 4:13). In Mark 14:3 and John 12:3, Mary, sister of Lazarus uses nard ointment to anoint the head and the feet of Jesus. Earlier in Jesus' ministry (Luke 7:37-50), an unnamed "sinful" woman also anoints him with costly perfume in an alabaster jar, which indicates that was most likely nard. A jar of spikenard in their society was very expensive--"worth a year's wages" (John 12:5).

Today, oil of spikenard is not used as widely as that of its many valerian relatives.

Answer 7

Spikenard was known in the temples to ease the transition between life and death which is why it was used to anoint Jesus prior to his Crucifixion.

Answer 8

A very expensive spice used in making pefume. Jesus was anointed by a woman with this expensive perfume. Mark 14:3; John 12:3

Answer 9

Yes. Someone can tell you about "Spikenard."

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Answer 10

My answer was rubbish so I took it off again. So I will just wave at you coooo eeeeee chuckles

Mrs Bad Grumbles