Mamabudz

had some fun last night working out the word history of our favorite herb: cannabis.

Many folks know that cannabis is referenced in the bible and that is some world religions its use is sacred. I was reading in the Tanakh (the 5 books Genisis Exodus Deut. Leviticus & Numbers) in the original Hebrew and actually tripped over the word.

First time I read it in it's original That was fun.

kaneh-bos'm -- reed or cane like aromatic plants (mistranslated in the Greek Septuagent to calamus which is a marsh plant of little value -- calamus was carried over in mistranslation into the King James version of the Bible)

kaneh is the root word from which we get the English word cane (sugar cane etc.)

bos'm is the plural of the word spice or aromatic. in Hebrew the plural is supplied by the sound of "m" so the singular is bos (or bis).

kaneh-bos or kaneh-bis is singular...doesn't take a lot to hear cannibis.

Exodus 30:23 is where you will find it. in the description of the annointing oil used in the tabernacle.

I love this stuff...

~ I'm having a cookie to celebrate