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Topic:
Cummin
With regard to the word "cummin…"
(Heb. kammon; i.e., a "condiment"), the fruit or seed of an
umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum sativum, still extensively cultivated
in the East. Its fruit is mentioned in Isa. 28:25, 27. In the New
Testament it is mentioned in Matt. 23:23, where our Lord pronounces a
"woe" on the scribes and Pharisees, who were zealous in paying
tithes of "mint and anise and cummin," while they omitted the
weightier matters of the law." "It is used as a spice, both
bruised, to mix with bread, and also boiled, in the various messes and
stews which compose an Oriental banquet." Tristram, Natural
History.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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