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# קִדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6916

**cassia** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cassia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6916/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִדָּה: n.f. cassia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6916/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a spice, usually cassia (𝔖 𝔙 𝔗 cf. Di Ex; √ dub.; perhaps foreign word);—merchandise Ez 27:19; ingredient of sacred oil Ex 30:24 (P):—cf. DioscorDe Mater. Med. i. 12 (κασσία=ἡ κιττώ), TheophrHist. Plant. ix. 5 PlinNH xii. 19 (42 ff.); v. also SchrödPh. Spr. 126 LewyFremdw. 36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cassia (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 30:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.24/#tree)

וְקִדָּ֕ה חֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת בְּשֶׁ֣קֶל הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ וְשֶׁ֥מֶן זַ֖יִת הִֽין׃

*Word for word:* and cassia five hundred(s) by the.shekel of the.holy.place and oil of.olive\[s\] a.hin

*JPS 1917:* and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.

[Ezekiel 27:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.19/#tree)

וְדָ֤ן וְיָוָן֙ מְאוּזָּ֔ל בְּעִזְבוֹנַ֖יִךְ נָתָ֑נּוּ בַּרְזֶ֤ל עָשׁוֹת֙ קִדָּ֣ה וְקָנֶ֔ה בְּמַעֲרָבֵ֖ךְ הָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Vedan and Javan from Uzal for wares your they.exchanged iron wrought cassia and calamus for merchandise your it.was

*JPS 1917:* Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6916.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6916/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).