Coriander
גַּדStrong’s H1407gad
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gad is the Hebrew word usually translated “coriander”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”
Meaning
- Coriander-a plant the seed of which resembles manna
How it's translated
- coriander 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גַּד gad · coriander
coriander-a plant the seed of which resembles manna
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coriander” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORIANDER, noun
[Latin, Gr.]
A genus of plants of two species. The seeds of one species, the sativum, have a strong smell, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.