Lexical Definition

‎קִנָּמוֹן‎ qinnâmôwn (kin-naw-mone') cinnamon ^H:N-M
from an unused root (meaning to erect)

cinnamon.

• cinnamon bark (as in upright rolls)

1) cinnamon
1a) fragrant bark used as spice

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קִנָּמוֺן‎ noun masculine cinnamon (probably foreign word, coming with the thing from remote East, compare M'Lean-ThDyer^{Ency Bib. under the word}; compare with Malay kainamanis by Rö^{Thes. Add. 111}, k¹yü m¹nIs Lewy^{Fremdw. 37}, but only k¹yu, wood, given by Scott^{Mal. Words in Eng. JAOS xviii, {1896,1897}}; Greek κιννάμων from Hebrew (against Lag BN 199)); — fragment bark used as spice: absolute ‎׳‎‎ק‎ Prov 7:17; Song 4:14 construct ‎קִנְּמָןבֶּֿשֶׂם‎ Exod 30:23(P) cinnamon of sweet odour. — See also Houghton-Tr^Smith D B under the word Post^{Hastings DB under the word}

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