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# ladanum

«ladanum» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A sticky, sweet-smelling resin from a plant, used for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A sticky, sweet-smelling resin from a plant, used for perfume and medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladanum/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The Ishmaelites carrying ladanum, spices and balm were the traders who bought Joseph and took him to Egypt. Interpretation: The rabbis noted that traders usually carried foul-smelling goods, but this caravan had sweet spices, which they took as a kindness to Joseph.

### examples

- And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt. (Torah GEN.37.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladanum/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ladanum» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/ladanum/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.