Stacte

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Septuagint Greek term from Stazoo "to drop." One ingredient in the holy perfume ( Exodus 30:34), Nataph ; also in  Job 36:27. Literally, anything that drops, as e.g. the purest myrrh, that drops as a tear spontaneously from the tree. Storax or Styrax Officinale of Syria is probably meant. The leaves resemble those of the poplar, downy beneath, with sweet-scented snow-white flowers clustered on the ends of the branches. It grows about 20 ft. high; the reddish yellow gum resin which exudes from the bark contains benzoic acid; the Hindus burn the benzoin in their temples.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

One of the four ingredients composing the sacred perfume,  Exodus 30:34,35 . Some think the gum called storax is intended; but it is generally understood to be the purest king of myrrh; and as the Hebrew properly signifies a drop, it would seem to refer to myrrh as distilling, dropping form the tree of its own accord, without incision. So Pliny, speaking of the trees whence myrrh is produced, says, "Before any incision is made, they exude of their own accord what is called Stacte, to which no kind of myrrh is preferable."

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sta-cte. (Hebrew, nataf ). The name of one of the sweet spices, which composed the holy incense. See  Exodus 30:34 - the only passage of Scripture in which the word occurs. Some identify the nataf , with the gum of the storer tree, ( Styraz officinale ), but all that is positively known is that it signifies an odorous distillation from some plant.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The word nataph signifies 'a drop' and is so translated in  Job 36:27 . Hence stacte is doubtless a spice that oozes from a tree in drops: it formed a part of the holy incense.  Exodus 30:34 . The R.V. has in its margin 'opobalsamum.' It is probably the gum from the storax tree, Styrax officinalis.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Stacte ( nâtâph ,   Exodus 30:34 [cf. Sir 24:15 ], lit. ‘drop,’ cf.   Job 36:27 ). Some fragrant gum collected in drops, either storax, or, more probably, myrrh.

E. W. G. Masterman.

King James Dictionary

STACTE, n. L., Gr. A fatty resinous liquid matter, of the nature of liquid myrrh, very odoriferous and highly valued. But it is said we have none but what is adulterated, and what is so called is liquid storax.

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Exodus 30:34Incense

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Exodus 30:34

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

stak´tē ( נטף , nātāph , "drops" (  Job 36:27 ); στακτή , staktḗ , meaning "oozing out in drops"): One of the ingredients of the holy ointment ( Exodus 30:34; Ecclesiasticus 24:15, margin "opobalsamum," the King James Version "storax"). The marginal reading is a concession to Jewish tradition, but see Spice , (1). Dioscorides describes two kinds of stacte, one of pure myrrh and one of storax and a fat mixed. See Myrrh . This nātāph must have been either myrrh "in drops," as it is collected, or some other fragrant gum, similarly collected, such, for example, as gum tragacanth.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Stac´te occurs only once in Scripture . 'And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte (nataf), and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense.' 'Thou shalt make it a perfume after the art of the apothecary' . Nataf has, however, been variously translated. Celsius is of opinion that it means the purest kind of myrrh, called stacte by the Greeks. But it is difficult if not impossible to arrive at certainty on the subject.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Stacte'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/stacte.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.