Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
MINT, well known herbs akin to garden sage, several species of which are wild or cultivated in Palestine. Mint was commonly used by the ancients in medicine and as a condiment. It is said to have been one of the bitter herbs eaten with the paschal lamb. Deut 14:22 required that the Jews should pay tithe of all produce of the ground, but they were more careful about trifles than about the , weightier matters. Matt 23:23.
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