The Definition of the word Cassia

Cassia

(1.) Hebrew kiddah', i.e., split." One of the principal spices" "of the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:24), and an article of" commerce (Ezek. 27:19). It is the inner bark of a tree "resembling the cinnamon (q.v.), the Cinnamomum cassia of" "botanists, and was probably imported from India." "(2.) Hebrew pl. ketzi'oth (Ps. 45:8). Mentioned in connection with myrrh and aloes as being used to scent garments. It was "probably prepared from the peeled bark, as the Hebrew word" "suggests, of some kind of cinnamon."