Cummin
כַּמֹּןStrong’s H3646kammon (kam-mon)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kammon is the Hebrew word usually translated “cumin”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?”
Meaning
- Cummin, cumina seed used as a condiment
How it's translated
- and cumin 2
- cumin 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
כַּמֹּן kammon · cummin
1) cummin, cumin 1a) a seed used as a condiment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cumin” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUMIN, noun
[Latin, Gr.]
An annual plant of one species, whose seeds have a bitterish warm taste, with an aromatic flavor.
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.