Cumin (2)
Cumin
Cumin. An annual seed-producing herb with pinkish-white blooms. Cumin is native to the eastern Mediterranean lands. When harvested, cumin was threshed with sticks ( Isa 28:25; Isa 28:27), a method still used today. Cumin was used to flavor foods, in medicine, and was subject to the tithe ( Mat 23:23).
The NKJV also mentions black cumin, which is translated dill (RSV, NEB, NASB), caraway (NIV), and fitches Kjv.
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Cumin
(, kammon’, lit, a condiment, from its use; Greek ; and names of similar sound in all the Oriental dialects) is an umbelliferous plant, mentioned both in the Old and New Testaments, and, like the dill and the coriander, continues to be cultivated in modern as it was in ancient times in Eastern countries (Pliny, 19:47). These are similar to and used for many of the same purposes as the anise and caraway, which supply their place, and are more common in Europe. All these plants produce fruits, commonly called seeds, which abound in essential oil of a more or less grateful flavor, and warm, stimulating nature; hence they were employed in ancient as in modern times both as condiments (Pliny, 19:8; Apicius, 1:32; 3. 18; Polyaen. 4:3, 32) and as medicines (Mishna, Shabb. 19:2). A native of Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, it is still extensively cultivated in Sicily and Malta. It would appear to have been a favorite herb among the Hebrews, and as late as the last century it retained a place of some importance in pharmacy (see Ehrmann, De cumino, Argent. 1733), Cumin is first mentioned in Isa 28:25; When he (the ploughman) hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cumin? showing that it was extensively cultivated, as it is in the present day, in Eastern countries, as far even as India. In the south of Europe it is also cultivated to some extent. In the above chapter of Isaiah (Isa 28:27) cumin is again mentioned: For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cumin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod. This is most applicable to the fruit of the common cumin, which, when ripe, may be separated from the stalk with the slightest stroke, and would be completely destroyed by the turning round of a wheel, which, bruising the seed, would press out the oil on which its virtues depend (see Dioscor, 3. 68). In the New Testament, cumin is mentioned in Mat 23:23, where our Savior denounces the Scribes and Pharisees, who paid their tithe of mint, and anise, and cumin, but neglected the weightier matters of the law. In the Talmudical tract Demai (ii. 1) cumin is mentioned as one of the things regularly tithed. (See Celsii Hierob. 1:516; Penny Cyclop. s.v.) SEE AROMATICS.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cumin (2)
(Cumian, Cumeanus, Cumeneus, or Cunmmein), was the name of about a score of Irish saints, of whom but few are clearly identifiable.
1. Son of Dubh, and abbot of Druimdruith, commemorated January 12.
2. Bishop of. Bobbio, commemorated August 19, died after seventeen years of piety, at the age of ninety-five, about A.D. 744.
3. A poet of Connor, about the middle of the 7th century.
4. Otherwise called Cadhan, commemorated June 1, seems to have been the son of Cronchu, son of Ronan, of the race of Corbmac Cas, and to have lived about A.D. 738.
5. Surnamed Fin, “the Fair,” commemorated February 24, is thought to be the same as the son of Ernan, of the district of Tyrconnell, who retired to the monastery of Hy. He probably became abbot A.D. 657, and died in 699. He is famous as the earliest biographer of St.Columba.
6. Surnamed Fodat, “the Tall,” of Cluainferta-Brenainn (now Clonfert), commemorated November 12, was the son of Fiachna, of the royal line of West Munster. He was born about A.D. 590, and his original name was Aedh. He seems to have been a man of great learning, and wrote a hymn in praise of the apostles and evangelists (ed(itend by Todd, Book of Hymns, 1:81). He died A.D. 662.