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title: כַּמֹּן — cummin · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּמֹּן (3646), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: cummin. BDB 1906: n.m. cumin, plant grown as condiment. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּמֹּן

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«כַּמֹּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cummin** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3646 · **BDB:** כַּמֹּן

### Glosses

cumin (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cummin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3646/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cumin, plant grown as condiment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3646/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cumin, plant grown as condiment (𝔊 κύμινον, cuminum cyminum; PlinNH xix. 8; Germ. ‘römischer Kümmel;’ LöwNo. 152; √ dub.; NH id. Aramaic כַּמּוֹנָא, ܟܰܡܘܽܢܳܐ; Arabic كَمُّونٌ, Ethiopic ከሚን on format. cf. LagBN 89; loan-word according to Di832);—Is 28:25, 27, 27.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּמֹּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3646/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 28:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.25/)

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הֲלוֹא֙ אִם־שִׁוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔יהָ וְהֵפִ֥יץ קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֣ן יִזְרֹ֑ק וְשָׂ֨ם חִטָּ֤ה שׂוֹרָה֙ וּשְׂעֹרָ֣ה נִסְמָ֔ן וְכֻסֶּ֖מֶת גְּבֻלָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not if he.has.leveled surface its and does.he.scatter black.cumin and cumin does.he.sprinkle? and does.he.put? wheat a.row and barley an.appointed.\[place\] and spelt border its

*JPS 1917:* When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?

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[Isaiah 28:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.27/)

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כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בֶֽחָרוּץ֙ י֣וּדַשׁ קֶ֔צַח וְאוֹפַ֣ן עֲגָלָ֔ה עַל־כַּמֹּ֖ן יוּסָּ֑ב כִּ֧י בַמַּטֶּ֛ה יֵחָ֥בֶט קֶ֖צַח וְכַמֹּ֥ן בַּשָּֽׁבֶט׃

*Word for word:* (dm) not with.(the) threshing sledge it.is.threshed black.cumin and a.wheel of.a.cart over cumin it.is.turned (dm) with (the) staff it.is.beaten.out black.cumin and cumin with (the) rod

*JPS 1917:* For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

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