Holy Anointing Oil:

Kaneh Bosm:

The Holy Anointing oil, or the Shemen Ha'Mishchah (שמן המשחה), formed an integral part of the Old Testament.

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THEN GOD SAID, I GIVE YOU EVERY SEED-BEARING

PLANT ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE

EARTH, AND EVERY TREE THAT

HAS FRUIT IN IT.”

GENESIS 1:29-30

The Hebrew word for cannabis is kaneh-bosm, also rendered in traditional Hebrew as kaneh or kannabus. The root kan in this construction means “reed” or “hemp”, while bosm means “aromatic”. This word appears five times in the Old Testament; in the books of Exodus, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

The word kaneh-bosm has been mistranslated as calamus, a common marsh plant with little monetary value that does not have the qualities or value ascribed to kaneh-bosm. The error occurred in the oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint in the third century BC, and was repeated in the many translations that followed (3).

Hebrew, occurring several times in the Old Testament. Sula Benet states that in Exodus 30:23 that God commands Moses to make a holy anointing oil of myrrh, sweet cinnamon, kaneh bosm, and kassia. He continues that the word kaneh bosm is also rendered in the traditional Hebrew as kannabos or kannabus and that the root "kan" in this construction means "reed" or "hemp", while "bosm" means "aromatic". He states that in the earliest Greek translations of the old testament "kan" was rendered as "reed", leading to such erroneous English translations as "sweet calamus" (Exodus 30:23), sweet cane (Isaiah 43:24; Jeremiah 6:20) and "calamus.