Amomum
Amomum
(, perhaps from Arab. hamma, heat)
An aromatic balsam used as an unguent for the hair, made from the seeds of an eastern plant which has not been identified with certainty, Josephus (Ant. xx. ii. 2) speaks of Harran as a soil which bare amomum in plenty, and Vergil (Ecl. iv. 25) predicts that in the Golden Age Assyrium vulgo nascetur amomum. The word came to be used generally for any pure and sweet odour. In Rev 18:13 Authorized Version (with B c) omits the word; Revised Version (with * AC) accepts it and translates spice (Revised Version margin Gr. amomum). The term is now applied to a genus of aromatic plants, some species of which yield cardamoms and grains of paradise.
James Strahan.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Amomum
(). This word is only found in Revelations 18:13 (between cinnamon and odors), and is even there omitted in the received text. It denoted an odoriferous plant or seed, used in preparing precious ointment. It probably differed from the modern amomum of the druggists (Penny Cyclopcedia, s.v.), but the exact species is not known. It was of various qualities, growing in Armenia and Media, and also in Pontus, with seeds in clusters like grapes (Pliny, Hist. Nat. 12, 28; Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. 9, 7).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Amomum
AMOMUM.Rev 18:13 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . See Spice.