ATS Bible Dictionary
CucumberA vegetable very plentiful in the East, especially in Egypt, Numbers 11:5, where they are esteemed delicacies, and form a great part of the food of the lower class of people, especially during the hot months. The Egyptian cucumber is similar in form to ours, but larger, being usually a foot in length. It is described by Hasselquist as greener, smoother, softer, sweeter, and more digestible than our cucumber.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
CUCUMBERku'-kum-ber (qishshu'im; sikuos): One of the articles of food for which Israel in the wilderness looked back with longing to Egypt (Numbers 11:5). Cucumbers are great favorites with all the people of Palestine. Two varieties occur, Cucumis sativus (Arabic, Khyar), originally a product of Northwest India, which is smooth-skinned, whitish and of delicate flavor, and requires much water in its cultivation, and Cucumis chate (Arabic, faqqus), which is long and slender but less juicy than the former. Probably the Biblical reference is to this latter as it is a plant much grown in Egypt where it is said to attain unusual excellence.
A "garden of cucumbers" or more literally a "place of cucumbers" (miqshdh), is mentioned in Isaiah 1:8; Baruch 6:70. "A lodge in a garden of cucumbers" (Isaiah 1:8) is the rough wooden booth erected by the owner from which he keeps guard over his ripening vegetables. It is commonly raised upon poles and, when abandoned for the season, it falls into decay and presents a dreary spectacle of tottering poles and dead leaves.
E. W. G. Masterman
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See
below.
Strong's Hebrew
7180. qishshuah -- a cucumber... << 7179, 7180. qishshuah. 7181 >>. a
cucumber. Transliteration: qishshuah Phonetic
Spelling: (kish-shoo') Short Definition: cucumbers.
... cucumber.
... /hebrew/7180.htm - 5k 4750. miqshah -- field of cucumbers
... field. Word Origin from the same as qishshuah Definition field of cucumbers
NASB Word Usage cucumber field (2). garden of cucumbers. ...
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6498. paqquoth -- gourds
... gourd. From the same as peqa'; the wild cucumber (from splitting open to shed its
seeds) -- gourd. see HEBREW peqa'. << 6497, 6498. paqquoth. 6499 >>. ...
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