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The Hebrew word כפר, kopher, is used several times in the Song of Songs, where it is generally accepted to refer to the henna plant; the henna plant is not mentioned explicitly elsewhere in the Bible. The word kopher seems to be cognate with the Ugaritic kpr and the Aramaic kuphra; it was transliterated as kuphra (כופרא) in the Bible’s Aramaic translation, the Peshitta; as kupros (κυπρος) in the Greek of the Septuagint; and as cyprus in the Latin of the Vulgate; the English translation, the King James Version (1611 CE) transliterated kopher as camphire. Noted Biblical scholar and botanist Yehuda Feliks identifies kopher as henna and notes that “the identification [of kopher] with the henna plant is unilaterally clear”. Due to confusion with the similar-sounding name, kopher was sometimes mis-identified as camphor, a product of Cinnamommun camphora, an Asian tree not grown in Israel.

The first mention of kopher in the Song of Songs is chapter 1, verse 14: ‘A cluster of henna [blossoms] is my beloved to me, in the vineyards of ‘Ein Gedi’. The word eshkol, cluster, is usually used in Biblical Hebrew to refer to a cluster of grapes; its use here is apparently a reference to the clustered flowers of the henna plant which grow in a shape reminiscent of a cluster of grapes. This verse, therefore, seems to refer to the perfume of the henna flower and not to the use of henna as a dye; this is corroborated by the mention of henna in Song of Songs 4:12-13 with other sweet-smelling plants: ‘Your shelaḥayikh [meaning unclear] are a garden of pomegranates with precious fruits, henna bushes with spikenard; spikenard and saffron, cane and cinnamon, with all frankincense trees, myrrh and aloes with all the chief spices’.