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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. Ex. 30: 34. The R.V. has in its
margin 'opobalsamum.' It is probably the gum from the storax tree,
Styrax officinalis.