Kammôn — H3646

Definition

masculine noun

'cummin' (from its use as a condiment)

1. cummin, cumin
1. a seed used as a condiment

Usually translated as

cummin

Origin

from an unused root meaning to store up or preserve

Greek equivalents

• kýminon (G2951)

Occurrences

Kammôn occurs 3 times in 2 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Isaiah (2)

• Isaiah 28:25 — When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin (וְכַמֹּ֣ן), and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
• Isaiah 28:27 — For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin (כַּמֹּ֖ן); but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
• Isaiah 28:27 — For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin (וְכַמֹּ֥ן) with a rod.