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n. - A soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative.

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  • It is probably correctly rendered by the Latin word ladanum, the
  • Heb. libneh, is the equivalent of Greek stachté, used by Septuagint in the above passages of Gen.; whether ladanum was meant is not clear, as it is frequently the Greek...
  • A little balsam and a little honey, tragacanth and ladanum, pistacia-nuts and almonds.
  • So their father said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: take some of the fruits of the land in your jars and carry a present to the man, a little balsam, a little syrup,...
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