unto thee: Exodus 30:23, Exodus 25:6, Exodus 37:29
stacte: Heb. nataph, The Jews and others suppose it to be what was afterwards called the balm of Jericho, or Gilead.
onycha: The word shechaileth: is generally allowed to denote onycha: (nail-fish, from its form), as it is rendered by the LXX and Vulgate. It is the shell of the purpura:, and of the whole class of murex:; and serves as the basis of the principal perfumes in India.
galbanum: Chelbenah:, (probably from chalay:, milk or gum, and lavan:, white), is the gummy, resinous juice of an umbelliferous plant, the bubon gumniferum: of Linneus, growing in Syria, Persia, and Africa. It rises with a ligneous stalk from eight to ten feet, and is garnished with leaves at every joint. The top of the stalk is terminated by an umbel of yellow flowers which are succeeded by oblong channelled seeds, which have a thin membrane or wing on their border. When any part of the plant is broken, there issues out a little thin juice, of a cream colour, of a fat, tough substance, like gum ammoniac, composed of many small, shining grains, of a strong, piercing smell and a sharp, warm taste.