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Strong's #6875: tsriy (pronounced tser-ee')

or tsoriy {tsor-ee'}; from an unused root meaning to crack (as by pressure), hence, to leak; distillation, i.e. balsam:--balm.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tserı̂y / tsŏrı̂y

1) a kind of balsam, balm, salve

1a) as merchandise

1b) as medicine

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to crack [as by pressure], hence, to leak



Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Genesis 37:25: "from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down"
Genesis 43:11: "and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices,"
Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then"
Jeremiah 46:11: "Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain"
Jeremiah 51:8: "howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed."
Ezekiel 27:17: "and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm."









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