Bible Encyclopedias
Coriander
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
kor -i -an´dẽr ( גּד , gadh ; κόριον , kórion ): The fruit of the Coriandrum Sativum (Natural Order Umbelliferae ), a plant indigenous around the Mediterranean and extensively cultivated. The fruits are aromatic and stomatic-carminative. They are of a grayish-yellow color, ribbed, ovate-globular and in size about twice that of a hemp-seed. "The manna was like coriander seed" (Numbers 11:7; see also Exodus 16:31 .
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Coriander'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/c/coriander.html. 1915.