Exodus 30:24

cassia Ezekiel 27:19 †: Heb. ḳiddâh, prob. the same as the κιττώ, spoken of by Diosc. (i. 12) as one species of κασία; Vulg. cassia. The word in Psalms 45:8 † is different (ḳeẓî-ôth, things scraped off, i.e. scraped or powdered bark); but doubtless denotes either the same or a kindred substance. The κασία, cassiaof the ancients (Theophr. ix. 5; Plin. xii. 19) is probably the same as the modern -cassia," viz. the inner bark, peeled off and dried in the sun, of a species of cinnamon tree, found in S. India and Malacca, which yields an inferior kind of cinnamon (see further EB.s.v.). Costus(RVm.; also written above the text in one MS. of LXX., Graec. Ven., and Saad.) is another oriental aromatic plant (Costus Arabicus, L.), used in the preparation of unguents: Hor. Carm.iii. 1, 44; Plin. xii. Exodus 12:25, xiii. 1, 2). All these foreign aromatic substances would come by trade-routes from the distant East, whether over-land by way of Babylon, or by sea, round Arabia (see G. A. Smith, Trade and Commerce in EB.§§ 30, 40, 56, 58, 63, 71).

the shekel of the sanctuary or the sacred shekel: see on v.13.

an hin Proverbs 1:1 /3 gallon: see on Exodus 29:40.