Cane

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Or CALAMUS, SWEET, Song of Song of Solomon 4:14 , an aromatic reed mentioned among the drugs of which the sacred perfumes were compounded, Exodus 30:23 . The true odoriferous calamus or grass came from India; and the prophets speak of it as a foreign commodity of great value, Isaiah 43:24 Jeremiah 6:20 Ezekiel 27:19 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Isaiah 43:24Jeremiah 6:20 Kaneh 1 Kings 14:15Job 40:21Isaiah 19:635:7Psalm 68:30 2 Kings 18:21Isaiah 36:6Ezekiel 29:6,7Calamus

Holman Bible Dictionary

Calamus

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CANE . See Reed.

King James Dictionary

CANE, n.

1. In botany, this term is applied to several species of plants belonging to several species of plants belonging to different genera, such as Arundo, Calamus, Saccharum, &c. Among these is the bamboo of the East Indies, with a strong stem, which serves for pipes, poles, and walking sticks. The sugar cane, a native of Asia, Africa and America, furnishes the juice from which are made, sugar, melasses and spirit. See Sugar Cane. 2. A walking stick. 3. A long measure, in several countries of Europe at Naples, the length Isaiah 7 feet 3 inches in Thoulouse in France, 5 feet 8 inches in Provence, &c., 6 feet 5 inches.

CANE, To beat with a cane or walking stick.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Cane. See Reed.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

(2):

(n.) A lance or dart made of cane.

(3):

(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

(4):

(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

(5):

(n.) A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

(6):

(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

(7):

(v. t.) To beat with a cane.

(8):

(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kān . See Reed .

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Cane (or Calamus), Sweet, an aromatic reed, mentioned among the drugs with which sacred perfumes were compounded (). [REED]

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Cane'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/cane.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.