Coriander

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A small round seed of an aromatic plant. The plant is a native of China, and is widely diffused in Asia and the south of Europe. Its seeds are planted in March. They are employed as a spice in the East, and are much used by druggists, confectionarists, etc. The manna which fell in the wilderness was like coriander-seed, Exodus 16:31 Numbers 11:7 . See Manna .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Exodus 16:31 Numbers 11:7

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

To it in form and color the manna is compared ( Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:7). The gad , Phoenician, goid . An umbelliferous plant, with white or red flowers producing globular, gray, spicy, striated, seedvessels. Used as a condiment with food in Egypt, and in making confectionery.

King James Dictionary

CORIANDER, n. L., Gr. A genus of plants of two species. The seeds of one species, the sativum, have a strong smell, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A round aromatic seed, the Coriandrum sativum, to which the manna was compared, both as to form and colour. Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11 :7.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Coriander. The plant called Coriandrum sativum is found in Egypt, Persia and India, and has a round tall stalk; it bears umbelliferous white or reddish flowers, from which arise globular, grayish, spicy seed-corns, marked with fine striae. It is mentioned twice in the Bible. Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:7.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

נר , Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:7; a strongly aromatic plant. It bears a small round seed, of a very agreeable smell and taste. The manna might be compared to the coriander seed in respect to its form or shape, as it was to bdellium in its colour. See MANNA .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kor -i -an´dẽr ( גּד , gadh  ; κόριον , kórion ): The fruit of the Coriandrum Sativum (Natural Order Umbelliferae ), a plant indigenous around the Mediterranean and extensively cultivated. The fruits are aromatic and stomatic-carminative. They are of a grayish-yellow color, ribbed, ovate-globular and in size about twice that of a hemp-seed. "The manna was like coriander seed" ( Numbers 11:7; see also Exodus 16:31 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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