Original Word: ἀλάβαστρον
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: alabastron
Pronunciation: ah-LAH-bah-stron
Phonetic Spelling: (al-ab'-as-tron)
KJV: (alabaster) box
NASB: alabaster vial, vial
Word Origin: [neuter of alabastros (of uncertain derivation), the name of a stone]

1. (properly) an "alabaster" box
2. (by extension) a perfume vase (of any material)

alabaster box.

Neuter of alabastros (of uncertain derivation), the name of a stone; properly, an "alabaster" box, i.e. (by extension) a perfume vase (of any material) -- (alabaster) box.

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
a box of alabaster
NASB Translation
alabaster vial (3), vial (1).

STRONGS NT 211: ἀλάβαστρον

ἀλάβαστρον, , τό (in the plural in Theocritus, 15, 114; Anth, Pal. 9, 153; in other secular writings ὁ and ἡ ἀλάβαστρος; (the older and more correct spelling drops the p, cf. Stephanus' Thesaurus, under the word, 1385 d.; Liddell and Scott, under the word ἀλάβαστρος)), a box made of alabaster, in which unguents are preserved (Pliny, h. n, 13, 2 (3) (others, 13, 19) "unguenta optime servantur in alabastris); with the addition of μύρου (as in Lucian, dial. mer. 14, 2; (Herodotus 3, 20)): Luke 7:37; Matthew 26:7; Mark 14:3 (where L T adopt τόν ἀλάβαστρον, Tr WH (Meyer) τήν ἀλ.; Matthew and Luke do not add the article, so that it is not clear in what gender they use the word (cf. Tdf.s critical note at the passage)). Cf. Winers RWB (or B. D.) under the word .

Forms and Transliterations

αλαβαστρον αλάβαστρον ἀλάβαστρον alabastron alábastron

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