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CUMMIN.—The seed of an umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum cyminum (syriacum), widely cultivated in and around Palestine. It is used to flavour dishes, and, more particularly, bread; in flavour and appearance it resembles carraway; it has long been credited with medicinal properties; it certainly is a carminative. It is even now beaten out with rods (Isa_28:27). Tithes of cummin were paid by the Jews (Mat_23:23).
E. W. G. Masterman.