Bible Encyclopedias
Cinnamon

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Cincinnati

Next Entry
Cipher

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Cinnamon
Thompson Chain Reference
• Cinnamon
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Cinnamon
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Cinnamon
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Cinnamon
King James Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Wilson's Bible Types
• Cinnamon
Webster Dictionary
• Cinnamone
• Cinnamon
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Cinnamon
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Cinnamon
• Cinnamon-Stone
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Cinnamon
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Cinnamon
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Cinnamon
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Cinnamon
Lexicons
• ܩܽܘܢܺܝܡܳܘܢ
• κινάμωμον , κιννάμωμον
• קִנָּמוֹן

The bark of the Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a plant so called botanically because growing best in Ceylon. A variety often substituted for it, cassia, comes from China. Cinnamon was known in early times to the Hebrews. It was used in making the anointing-oil (Exodus 30:23), and,further, as a mere perfume (Proverbs 7:17). In the Song of Solomon (4:14) it is mentioned along with other fragrant woods. Gesenius and Lagarde consider the Hebrew ("ḳinnamon") to be a loan-word from the Greek (κιννάμωμον), although Herodotus (3:111) states that the Greeks themselves borrowed it from the Phenicians. It seems that both Hebrew and Greek took it from the Phenician.