Strong's Hebrew: 3646. כַּמֹּן (kammon) -- cummin (a plant grown as a condiment)

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kammon: cummin (a plant grown as a condiment)

Original Word: כַּמֹּן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kammon
Phonetic Spelling: (kam-mone')
Short Definition: cummin

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
cummin (a plant grown as a condiment)
NASB Translation
cummin (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כַּמֹּן noun masculine cummin, plant grown as condiment (ᵐ5 κύμινον, cuminum cyminum; Plin.^{NH xix. 8}; German 'römischer Kümmel;' Löw^{No. 152}; √ dubious; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic כַּמּוֺנָא,

; Arabic

, Ethiopic

on formative compare Lag^{BN 89}; loan-word according to Di⁸³²); — Isaiah 28:25,27 (twice in verse).

Strong's

cummin

From an unused root meaning to store up or preserve; "cummin" (from its use as a condiment) -- cummin.