The herbs, spices, and healing plants named throughout the Bible — their verses, their stories, and the traditions woven around them.
From the hyssop of the Passover to the frankincense and myrrh laid before the Christ child, Scripture is rich with herbs, spices, and fragrant plants. They flavored daily bread, anointed kings and the sick, marked sacred rites, and filled the storehouses of the ancient world. Here we gather the plants of the Bible — each with its verse, its place in the great story, and the traditions that have grown around it.