“spikenard” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word spikenard appears 5 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 5 matching verses are shown below.
- Canticle of Canticles 1:11 While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:13 Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
- Canticle of Canticles 4:14 Spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon, with all the trees of Libanus, myrrh and aloes with all the chief perfumes.
- Mark 14:3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
- John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.