קינמון

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kinaˈmon/

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קינמון / קִנָּמוֹן • (kinamón) m (singular construct קִנְּמׇן־)

1. cinnamon (tree)
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 63a:

     עֲצֵי יְרוּשָׁלַיִם שֶׁל קִינָּמוֹן הָיוּ, וּבְשָׁעָה שֶׁהָיוּ מַסִּיקִין מֵהֶן, רֵיחָן נוֹדֵף בְּכָל אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל

     atsé y'rushaláyim shel kinamón hayú, uv'sha'á shehayú masikín mehén, rekhán nodéf b'khol érets yisra'él.

     The firewood of Jerusalem was of cinnamon-tree, and when they lit it their smell would waft through all the land of Israel.

2. cinnamon (spice)
   • Tanach, Exodus 30:23, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְאַתָּה קַח־לְךָ בְּשָׂמִים רֹאשׁ מׇר־דְּרוֹר חֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֹת וְקִנְּמׇן־בֶּשֶׂם מַחֲצִיתוֹ חֲמִשִּׁים וּמָאתָיִם וּקְנֵה־בֹשֶׂם חֲמִשִּׁים וּמָאתָיִם׃

     v'atá kákh l'khá b'samím rosh: mar-drór khamésh me'ót v'kinmón-bósem makhatsitó khamishím umatáyim ukné-vósem khamishím umatáyim.

     Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty.

   • Tanach, Song of Songs 7:17, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     נַפְתִּי מִשְׁכָּבִי מֹר אֲהָלִים וְקִנָּמוֹן׃

     náfti mishkaví mor ahalím v'kinamón.

     I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Keritot, 6a:

     הַקֹּשְׁטְ שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר וְקִלּוּפָה שְׁלשָׁה וְקִנָּמוֹן תִּשְׁעָה

     hakósht shném asár, v'kilufá shloshá, v'kinamón tish'á.

     Crocus, twelve measures, and bark, three measures, and cinnamon, nine measures

• קנום / קָנֹם (kanóm, “cinnamon-colored”)