What Is Alabaster in the Bible?
Object
A fine white stone. Flasks for costly perfumes were made from it.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 7:37
What the Bible says
Luke 7:37
And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment;
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “alabaster”