The Definition of the word Calamus

Calamus

The Latin for cane, Hebrew Kaneh, mentioned (Ex. 30:23) as one "of the ingredients in the holy anointing oil, one of the sweet" "scents (Cant. 4:14), and among the articles sold in the markets" of Tyre (Ezek. 27:19). The word designates an Oriental plant "called the "sweet flag," the Acorus calamus of Linnaeus. It is" "elsewhere called "sweet cane" (Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20). It has an" "aromatic smell, and when its knotted stalk is cut and dried and" "reduced to powder, it forms an ingredient in the most precious" "perfumes. It was not a native of Palestine, but was imported" from Arabia Felix or from India. It was probably that which is "now known in India by the name of "lemon grass" or "ginger" "grass," the Andropogon schoenanthus. (See [90]CANE.)"