Anointing

Anointing with the Alabaster Flask

The Bible mentions an alabaster flask or box or more accurately "an alabastron", a small contaner which was filled with costly spikenard (perfumed oil). Mary came to the house of Simon the leper to anoint Jesus by breaking the jar and pouring the spikenard on his head in Mark 14. In the ancient world one of the purposes for anointing the head was t...

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Anoint in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"To put oil on the head or body"; a practice common in the E. (Rth 3:3). To cease anointing was a mark of mourning (2 Samuel 14:2; Daniel 10:3; Matthew 6:17). A mark of respect to a guest so common that to omit it implied defective hospitality (Luke 7:46; Psalm 23:5); Heb., "Thou hast made fat," or "unctuous" (John 11:2; John 12:3). A body was...

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Anointing Scripture - Numbers 4:16

And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [pertaineth] the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, [and] the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein [is], in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof....

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Anointing Scripture - Leviticus 8:30

And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which [was] upon the altar, and sprinkled [it] upon Aaron, [and] upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, [and] his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him....

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Anointing Scripture - Exodus 35:15

And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,...

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Anointing Scripture - Exodus 29:21

And thou shalt take of the blood that [is] upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle [it] upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him....

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Anointing Scripture - Exodus 40:9

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that [is] therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy....

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Anointing Scripture - Exodus 30:25

And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil....

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Anointing Scripture - Exodus 40:15

And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations....

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Anointing in Naves Topical Bible

Of the body De 28:40; Ru 3:3; Es 2:12; Ps 92:10; 104:15; 141:5; Pr 27:9,16; Ec 9:8; So 1:3; 4:10; Isa 57:9; Am 6:6; Mic 6:15 -Of guests 2Ch 28:15; Lu 7:46 -Of the sick Isa 1:6; Mr 6:13; Lu 10:34; Jas 5:14; Re 3:18 -Of the dead Mt 26:12; Mr 14:8; 16:1; Lu 23:56 -Of Jesus, as a token of love Lu 7:37,38,46; Joh 11:2; 12:3 -Omitted in mour...

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