Coriander
CORIANDER
A small round seed of an aromatic plant. The plant is a native of China, and is widely diffused in Asia and the south of Europe. Its seeds are planted in March. They are employed as a spice in the East, and are much used by druggists, confectionarists, etc. The manna which fell in the wilderness was like coriander-seed, Exo 16:31 Num 11:7 . See MANNA.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Coriander
Coriander. An annual herb, growing from one-half to one meter (two to three feet) tall, which produced grayish seeds used to flavor foods, for confections, and in medicine. The dried leaves of coriander were also used to flavor foods.
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Coriander
(, from the root to make an incision, referring to the furrows in the seed). The Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic, with the Sept. and Vulg., render this word coriander (Gesenius, Thesaur. Heb. p. 264), as does our version in Exo 16:13; Num 11:7, the only passages where it occurs, and in both which the appearance of manna is compared to that of its seeds as to form, and in the former passage as to color also. SEE MANNA. According to Dioscorides also (3, 64) the ancient Carthaginian name for coriander was goid (), evidently kindred with the Hebrew gad. Celsius states (Hierob. 2:78 sq.) that the coriander is frequently mentioned in the Talmud (where it is called , kasbars, or , kusebar’). It was known to and used medicinally by Hippocrates: it is mentioned by Theophrastus, as well as Dioscorides, under the name of or ; and the Arabs, in their works on Materia Medica, give korion as the Greek synonym of coriander, which they call kuzecreh, the Persians kishneez, and the natives of India (compare Pliny, 20:82) dhunya. It is known throughout all these countries, in all of which it is cultivated, being universally employed as a grateful spice, and as one of the ingredients of currie-powder (see Busching, Wochentl. Nachr. 1775, p. 42; Rauwolff, Reise, p. 94; Gmelin, Reise durch Russl. 3, 282). It is also found in Egypt (Prosp. Alpin. Res. AEg. 2:9, p. 156). It is now very common in the south of Europe, and also in England, being cultivated, especially in Essex, on account of its seeds, which are required by confectioners, druggists, and distillers in large quantities; in gardens it is reared on account of its leaves, which are used in soups and salads (see Pereira’s Materia Medica). The coriander is the Coriandrum sativum of botanists, an umbelliferous plant, with a round tall stalk. The flowers are small and pale pink, the leaves are much divided (especially the upper ones) and smooth. The fruit, commonly called seeds, is globular, grayish-colored, about the size of peppercorn, having its surface marked with fine strime. Both its taste and smell are agreeable, depending on the presence of a volatile oil, which is separated by distillation(see Penny Cyclopaedia, s.v.). SEE BOTANY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Coriander
Heb. gad, (Ex. 16:31; Num. 11:7), See d to which the manna is likened in its form and colour. It is the Coriandrum sativum of botanists, an umbelliferous annual plant with a round stalk, about two feet high. It is widely cultivated in Eastern countries and in the south of Europe for the sake of its See ds, which are in the form of a little ball of the size of a peppercorn. They are used medicinally and as a spice. The Greek name of this plant is korion or koriannon, whence the name “coriander.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Coriander
To it in form and color the manna is compared (Exo 16:31; Num 11:7). The gad, Phoenician, goid. An umbelliferous plant, with white or red flowers producing globular, gray, spicy, striated, seedvessels. Used as a condiment with food in Egypt, and in making confectionery.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Coriander
kor-i-ander (, gadh; , korion): The fruit of the Coriandrum Sativum (Natural Order Umbelliferae), a plant indigenous around the Mediterranean and extensively cultivated. The fruits are aromatic and stomatic-carminative. They are of a grayish-yellow color, ribbed, ovate-globular and in size about twice that of a hemp-seed. The manna was like coriander seed (Num 11:7; see also Exo 16:31.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Coriander
Fig. 135Coriandrum sativum
Coriander occurs in two places in Scripture, viz. Exo 16:31, ‘And it (manna) was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made of honey;’ Num 11:7, ‘And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium.’ The coriander is known throughout Arabia, Persia, and India, in all of which it is cultivated, being universally employed as a grateful spice, and as one of the ingredients of curie-powder. It is also common in Egypt. It is now very common in the south of Europe, and also in this country, being cultivated, especially in Essex, on account of its seeds, which are required by confectioners, druggists, and distillers, in large quantities: in gardens it is reared on account of its leaves, which are used in soups and salads. The coriander is an umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum of botanists. The fruit, commonly called seeds, is globular, grayish-colored, about the size of peppercorn, having its surface marked with fine stria. Both its taste and smell are agreeable, depending on the presence of a volatile oil, which is separated by distillation.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Coriander
A round aromatic seed, the Coriandrum sativum, to which the manna was compared, both as to form and colour. Exo 16:31; Num 11:7.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Coriander
A spice.
Exo 16:31; Num 11:7
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Coriander
Coriander. The plant called Coriandrum sativum is found in Egypt, Persia and India, and has a round tall stalk; it bears umbelliferous white or reddish flowers, from which arise globular, grayish, spicy seed-corns, marked with fine striae. It is mentioned twice in the Bible. Exo 16:31; Num 11:7.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Coriander
, Exo 16:31; Num 11:7; a strongly aromatic plant. It bears a small round seed, of a very agreeable smell and taste. The manna might be compared to the coriander seed in respect to its form or shape, as it was to bdellium in its colour. See MANNA.