International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Coriander

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Coriander


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kor-i-an´dẽr (גּד, gadh; κόριον, kórion): The fruit of the Coriandrum Sativum (Natural Order Umbelliferae), a plant indigenous around the Mediterranean and extensively cultivated. The fruits are aromatic and stomatic-carminative. They are of a grayish-yellow color, ribbed, ovate-globular and in size about twice that of a hemp-seed. “The manna was like coriander seed” (; see also .