smell, spice, sweet (odour)
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(species). Hardly, as with us, the entire list of aromatic vegetable substances, but rather the fragrant gums, barks, and so forth, of ceremonial, medicinal, and toilet value, and for embalming (Gen. 37:25; 43:11; Song of Sol. 4:14; Mark 16:1; John 19:39-40).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
These were much used in the East, and were of different kinds. See the various names by which they are designated, as myrrh, aloes, cassia, galbanum, stacte.
Spices at a bazaar in Jerusalem.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
or bosem {bo'-sem}; from the same as 1313; fragrance; by implication, spicery; also the balsam plant
KJV Usage:
smell, spice, sweet (odour)