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Dictionary of Bible Themes
Exodus 30:23-24,34

Substances used to make perfumes

By blending ingredients

Songs 4:13-14

See also

Substances used as perfumes

Songs 1:12-14; 3:6; 5:13
Mark 14:3
John 12:3
Genesis 37:25
Ezekiel 27:19

Perfume ingredients as traded commodities

Revelation 18:13
Proverbs 7:17

The attractive fragrance of perfume

See also

Its tempting allure

Isaiah 57:9
Ezekiel 23:40-41
Proverbs 27:9
Songs 1:3; 4:10

Its pleasing fragrance

2 Corinthians 2:14-16

See also

Fragrance used metaphorically

Ephesians 5:2
Philippians 4:18
Esther 2:12

Examples of the use of perfume

See also

As a cosmetic

Ruth 3:3
Psalms 45:8

See also

To give fragrance to clothes

Songs 4:11
Matthew 26:12

In burying the dead

See also

2 Chronicles 16:14

pp Mk 14:8

Mark 16:1
John 12:7; 19:39-40

pp Lk 23:56-24:1

Exodus 37:29

Perfumers

See also

Commissioned to make oil and incense for the sanctuary

Exodus 30:25,33
Exodus 30:35
1 Chronicles 9:30

The manufacture of the sacred anointing oil by unauthorised persons was forbidden

1 Samuel 8:13

Other references to perfumers

Nehemiah 3:8

perfumers in the service of the king

See also

Hananiah

4468 horticulture
4488 oil
4488 oil
4490 ointment
5184 standing
5235 boundary
5241 burial
6241 seduction
7304 anointing
7388 kinsman-redeemer
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