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# קִנָּמוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7076

**cinnamon** — used 3 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

cinnamon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7076/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִנָּמוֹן: n.m. cinnamon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7076/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cinnamon (prob. foreign wd., coming with the thing from remote E., cf. MʾLean-ThDyerEncy. Bib. s.v.; cp. with Malay kainamanis by RödThesAdd. 111, kāyü mānĭs LewyFremdw. 37, but only Kāyu, wood, given by ScottMal. Words in Eng. JAOS xvii, xviii (1896, 1897); Gk. κιννάμων from Heb. (against LagBN 199));—fragrant bark used as spice: abs. ק׳ Pr 7:17; Ct 4:14; cstr. קִנְּמָן־בֶּשֶׂם Ex 30:23 (P) cinnamon of sweet odour.—Vid. also Houghton-TrSmith DB s.v. PostHastings DB s.v..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: cinnamon (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.17/#tree)

נַ֥פְתִּי מִשְׁכָּבִ֑י מֹ֥ר אֲ֝הָלִ֗ים וְקִנָּמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* I.have.sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon

*JPS 1917:* I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

[Song of Songs 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.4.14/#tree)

נֵ֣רְדְּ ׀ וְכַרְכֹּ֗ם קָנֶה֙ וְקִנָּמ֔וֹן עִ֖ם כָּל־עֲצֵ֣י לְבוֹנָ֑ה מֹ֚ר וַאֲהָל֔וֹת עִ֖ם כָּל־רָאשֵׁ֥י בְשָׂמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* nard and saffron calamus and cinnamon with all \[the\].trees of.frankincense myrrh and aloes with all \[the\].best of.spices

*JPS 1917:* Spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7076.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7076/): 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).