Cinnamon

The bark of a tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, that is native to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) which, when peeled off and dried, imparts a mild pleasing fragrance as a spice and scenting agent. Cinnamon had been traded with the great civilizations of the ancient Near East long before Israel came into existence. Cinnamon is mentioned 4x in the Bible, translating Hebrew qinnamon and Greek kinnamomon:

Concordance:

Exo 30:23 — "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane, . . . Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil. Then use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,

Prov 7:17 — I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Song 4:14 — Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.

Rev 18:13 — "The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no-one buys their cargoes any more—cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.

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