What Is Ointment in the Bible?
Object
A perfumed oil, made with fragrant plants.
Where it appears in the Bible
John 12:3
What the Bible says
John 12:3
Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: John 12:3 (NABRE: “perfumed oil”)