Cucumbers (3 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 10:5 They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good. (See JPS)

Thesaurus

Cucumbers (3 Occurrences)
... not altogether wonder that the Israelites, wearily marching through the arid solitudes
of the Sinaitic peninsula, thought more of the cucumbers and watermelons ...
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Cucumber (2 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Food (2953 Occurrences)
... The children of Israel, when in the wilderness, are said to have looked back wistfully
on the "cucumbers. ...Cucumbers (qishshu'im) were then, as now, much used. ...
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Melons (2 Occurrences)
... Of this plant there are various kinds, the Egyptian melon, the Cucumus chate, which
has been called "the queen of cucumbers;" the water melon, the Cucurbita ...
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Cud (9 Occurrences)

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Lodge (64 Occurrences)
... In Isaiah 1:8, "a lodge (melunah) in a garden of cucumbers," the meaning is "hut,"
"cottage." "Evil thoughts" are said to "lodge" in the wicked (Jeremiah 4:14 ...
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Onions (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (WEB KJV ...
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Leeks (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (WEB KJV ...
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Garlic (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; (WEB KJV ...
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Garlick (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 11:5 We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Cucumbers

(Heb. kishshuim). This word occurs in (Numbers 11:5) as one of the good things of Egypt produces excellent cucumbers, melons, etc., the Cucumis chate being the best of its tribe yet known. Besides the Cucumis chate , the common cucumber (C. sativus), of which the Arabs distinguish a number of varieties, is common in Egypt. "Both Cucumis chate and C. sativus ," says Mr. Tristram, "are now grown in great quantities in Palestine. On visiting the Arab school in Jerusalem (1858) I observed that the dinner which the children brought with them to school consisted, without exception, of a piece of barley cake and a raw cucumber, which they ate rind and all." The "lodge in a garden of cucumbers," (Isaiah 1:8) is a rude temporary shelter erected int eh open grounds where vines, cucumbers, gourds, etc., are grown, in which some lonely man or boy is set to watch, either to guard the plants from robbers or to scare away the foxes and jackals from the vines.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Hebrews plur. kishshuim; i.e., "hard, " "difficult" of digestion, only in Numbers 11:5). This vegetable is extensively cultivated in the East at the present day, as it appears to have been in earlier times among the Hebrews. It belongs to the gourd family of plants. In the East its cooling pulp and juice are most refreshing. "We need not altogether wonder that the Israelites, wearily marching through the arid solitudes of the Sinaitic peninsula, thought more of the cucumbers and watermelons of which they had had no lack in Egypt, rather than of the cruel bondage which was the price of these luxuries." Groser's Scripture Natural History.

Isaiah speaks of a "lodge" (1:8; Hebrews sukkah), i.e., a shed or edifice more solid than a booth, for the protection throughout the season from spring to autumn of the watchers in a "garden of cucumbers."

Strong's Hebrew

4750. miqshah -- field of cucumbers
... << 4749, 4750. miqshah. 4751 >>. field of cucumbers. Transliteration: miqshah Phonetic
Spelling: (mik-shaw') Short Definition: field. ... garden of cucumbers. ...
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7180. qishshuah -- a cucumber
... << 7179, 7180. qishshuah. 7181 >>. a cucumber. Transliteration: qishshuah
Phonetic Spelling: (kish-shoo') Short Definition: cucumbers. ...
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