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Calamus, Song of Solomon 4:14; Ezekiel 27:19, or Sweet Calamus, Exodus 30:23, or Sweet Cane, Isaiah 43:24; Jeremiah 6:20. These are probably names for the same plant. It seems to have been an aromatic reed brought "from a far country." Lemon-grass is "a plant of remarkable fragrance and a native of Central India, where it is used to mix with ointments, on account of the delicacy of its odor." Calamus may have been a species of this.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Calamus'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/calamus.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Calamus'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/calamus.html. 1893.
