Calamus

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CALAMUS.—See Reed.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


(Exo_30:23). An ingredient in the holy anointing oil (Son_4:14; Eze_27:19), an import to Tyre. Aromatic cane: an Indian and Arabian plant. TheAcorus Calamus (Isa_43:24; Jer_6:20), "sweet cane." A scented cane is said to have been found in a valley of Lebanon, reedlike, much jointed, and very fragrant when bruised.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Calamus. See Reed.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


קנה Exo_30:23; Son_4:14; Isa_43:24; Jer_6:20; Eze_27:19. An aromatic reed, growing in moist places in Egypt, in Judea near lake Genezareth, and in several parts of Syria. It grows to about two feet in height; bearing from the root a knotted stalk, quite round, containing in its cavity a soft white pith. The whole is of an agreeable aromatic smell; and the plant is said to scent the air with a fragrance even while growing. When cut down, dried, and powdered; it makes an ingredient in the richest perfumes. It was used for this purpose by the Jews.
CALAMUS SCRIPTORIUS, a reed answering the purpose of a pen to write with. The ancients used styles, to write on tablets covered with wax; but reeds, to write on parchment or papyrus. The Psalmist says, “My tongue is the pen of a ready writer,” Psa_45:1. The Hebrew signifies rather a style. The third book of Maccabees states, that the writers employed in making a list of the Jews in Egypt, produced their reeds quite worn out. Baruch wrote his prophecies with ink, Jer_36:4; and, consequently, used reeds; for it does not appear that quills were then used to write with. In 3Jn_1:13, the Apostle says, he did not design to write with pen (reed) and ink. The Arabians, Persians, Turks, Greeks, and Armenians, to this day, write with reeds or rushes.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


kal?a-mus. See REED.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Calamus
occurs in three passages of the Auth. Vers. for the Hebrews קָנֶה, kanek' (Sept. κάλαμος, elsewhere “reed”): Exo_30:23, among the ingredients of the holy anointing oil; Son_4:14, in an enumeration of sweet scents; and Eze_27:19, among the articles brought to the markets of Tyre. The term designates the marsh and river reed generally, SEE REED; but in the places just referred to it appears to signify the sweet flag (κάλαμος ἀρωματικός, Dioscor. 1:17), an Oriental plant (calamus odoratus, Plin. 12:12, 48); of which the Linnsean name is Acorus calamus. No doubt the same plant is intended in Isa_43:24;Jer_6:20, where the Auth. Vers. has sweet cane. In the latter text the Hebrews is קָנֶה הִטּוֹב, kaneh' hat-tob' (i.e. good cane), and in Exo_30:23, קָנֵה בשֶם, kaneh' bo'sem (i.e. odoriferous cane). “Ascented cane is said to have been found in a valley of Mount Lebanon (Polyb. 5:46; Strab. 16:4). The plant has a reed-like stem, which is exceedingly fragrant, like the leaves, especially when bruised. It is of a tawny color, much jointed, breaking into splinters, and having the hollow stem filled with pith like a spider's web” (Kalisch on Exo_30:23.) The calamus of Scripture is probably the reed by that name sometimes found in Europe, but usually in Asia (Thephrast. Plantt. 9:7; Pliny, 12:12), and especially in India and Arablia (Diod. Sic. 2:49; Pliny, 12:48). It grows in moist places in Egypt and Judaea, and in several parts of Syria, bearing from the root a knotted stalk, containing in its cavity a soft white pith. It has an agreeable aromatic smell, and when cut, dried, and powdered, it forms an ingredient in the richest perfumes (Pliny, 15:7; see Celsii Hierob.2:326 sq.). The plant from which the aromaticus” of modern shops is obtained appears to be a different species (Penny Cyclopcedia, s.v. Acorus). SEE CANE.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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