Quick Definition
spice, perfume
Strong's Definition
an aromatic
Derivation: from G142 (αἴρω) (in the sense of sending off scent);
KJV Usage: (sweet) spice
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄρωμα, ἀρώματος, τό (from ἈΡΩ to prepare, whence ἀρτύω to season; (others connect it with the root ar (ἀρόω), to plow (cf. Gen_27:27); others besides)), spice, perfume: Mar_16:1; Luk_23:56; Luk_24:1; Joh_19:40. (2Ki_20:13; Est_2:12; Son_4:10; Son_4:16. (Hippocrates), Xenophon, Theophrastus, and subsequent writings.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄρωμα arōma 4x
an aromatic substance, spice, etc., Mar_16:1 ; Luk_23:56 ; Luk_24:1 ; Joh_19:40
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄρωμα , -τος , τό ,
[in LXX for H1314 ;]
spice: Mar_16:1 , Luk_23:56 ; Luk_24:1 , Joh_19:40 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄρωμα [page 83]
In Syll 939 .17 (an undated decree from Arcadia, containing regulations about the mysteries, in strongly dialectic form, and therefore presumably not late) we find μάκων [σ ]ι λευκαῖς , λυχνίοις , θυμιάμασιν , [ζ ]μύρναι , ἄρωμασιν all governed by χρέεσθαι (= χρῆσθαι ). So OGIS 383 .143 (i/B.C.) ἐπιθύσεις . . . ἀρωμάτων ἐν βωμοῖς τούτοις ποιείσθω , P Oxy IX. 1211 .10 (ii/A.D.) πᾶν ἄρωμα χωρὶς λιβάνου , every Spice except frankincense, in a list of articles for a sacrifice, BGU I. 149 .1 (ii/iii A.D.) (= Chrest. I. 93) ἰ ]ς τιμὴν [τῶν ἀρ ]ωμάτων , in temple-accounts, and p Leid W vi. 16 .
For the adj. see P Fay 93 .5 ff. (a lease of a perfumery business, A.D. 161) (= Chrest. I. 317) βούλομαι μισθώσασθαι παρά σου τὴν μυροπω̣λα̣ι̣κὴν ( l. μυροπωλικὴν ) καὶ ἀρομ̣ατικὴν ( l. ἀρωματικὴν ) ἐργασίαν κτλ . Add the inscription on a seal of the time of the Antonines ἀρωματικῆς τῶν κυρίων Καισάρων , where Rostovzew supplies ὠνῆς after ἀ . : see Archiv ii. p. 443, and for the ἀρωματική tax, ib. iii. p. 192, iv. p. 313 ff. The verb occurs Priene 112 .62 (after B.C. 84) ἠρωματισμένον . . . ὲ̣λ̣α̣ιον .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἄρωμα, -τος, τό
[in LXX for בֶּשֶׂם ;]
spice: Mrk.16:1, Luk.23:56 24:1, Jhn.19:40.†
(AS)