The word in Scripture

Spices in the Bible

The word spices appears 31 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Spices are fragrant offerings for anointing and burial. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What spices means in the Bible

Spices are fragrant offerings for anointing and burial.

Where the word spices appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word spices appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,”Exodus 35:8

“And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.”Exodus 37:29

“My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.”Song of Solomon 6:2

“And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.”Isaiah 39:2

“And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.”Mark 16:1

“And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.”Luke 23:56

“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.”Luke 24:1

“Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.”John 19:40