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Amomum
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(ἄμωμον, perhaps from Arab. hamma, ‘heat’)
An aromatic balsam used as an unguent for the hair, made from the seeds of an eastern plant which has not been identified with certainty, Josephus (Ant. xx. ii. 2) speaks of Harran as ‘a soil which bare amomum in plenty,’ and Vergil (Ecl. iv. 25) predicts that in the Golden Age ‘Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum.’ The word came to be used generally for any pure and sweet odour. In Revelation 18:13 Authorized Version (with B אc) omits the word; Revised Version (with א* AC) accepts it and translates ‘spice’ (Revised Version margin ‘Gr. amomum’). The term is now applied to a genus of aromatic plants, some species of which yield cardamoms and grains of paradise.
James Strahan.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Amomum'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/a/amomum.html. 1906-1918.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Amomum'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/a/amomum.html. 1906-1918.
