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for: Luk 11:42
anise: Gr. ανηθον [Strong's G432], dill. Dill is a species of plant of the pentandria digynia class, growing native in Spain and Portugal. The root is fusiform and long; stems, erect-groved, jointed, branched, and about two feet in height; leaves, doubly pinnated, sweet and odorous; flowers, flat, terminal umbels; corolla, five ovate, concave, yellow petals, with apexes inflected; germen, like that of fennel; seeds, scarcely the length of a carraway seed, but broader and flatter, of a brown colour, aromatic, sweetish odour, and warmish, pungent taste.
cummin: Gr. κυμινομ [Strong's G2951] Cummin is a plant of the same class as dill. It rises eight or ten inches on a slender round procumbent, branching stem; leaves, a dark green, narrow, linear, and pointed; flowers, purple, in numerous four rayed umbels; corolla, five unequal petals, inflected, and notched at the apex; seeds, oblong, striated, of a brown colour, strong, heavy odour, and warm, bitterish taste.
the weightier: Mat 9:13, Mat 12:7, Mat 22:37-40; 1Sa 15:22; Pro 21:3; Jer 22:15-16; Hos 6:6; Mic 6:8; Gal 5:22-23
these: Mat 5:19-20