Leeks (1 Occurrence)

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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)

Thesaurus

Leeks (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia LEEKS. leks (chatsir; ta ... vegetable was
renowned. Multi-Version Concordance Leeks (1 Occurrence). ...
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Leek
... Allium porrum), rendered "grass" in 1 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 19:26, Job 40:15, etc.;
"herb" in Job 8:12; "hay" in Proverbs 27:25, and Isaiah 15:6; "leeks" only in ...
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Grass (92 Occurrences)
... fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life
(Isaiah 40:6, 7; Psalm 90:5). In Numbers 11:5 this word is rendered "leeks.". ...
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Food (2953 Occurrences)
... melons. leeks. onions ... time. Onions (betsalim), garlic (shummim) and leeks
(chatsir) are still much used in Palestine as in Egypt. ...
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Lees (3 Occurrences)

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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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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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Wont (19 Occurrences)
... Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers,
and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: (See JPS ...
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Tablets (31 Occurrences)
... She filled her basket with tablets and went home. How many she had already pulverized
and grown into leeks and cucumbers and melons will never be known. ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Leeks

(Heb. chatsir). The leek was a bulbous vegetable resembling the onion. Its botanical name is Allium porrum. The Israelites in the wilderness longed for the leeks and onions of Egypt. (Numbers 11:5) The word chatsir , which in (Numbers 11:5) is translated leeks , occurs twenty times in the Hebrew text. The Hebrew term, which properly denotes grass , is derived from a root signifying "to be green," and may therefore stand in this passage for any green food --lettuce, endive, etc.; it would thus be applied somewhat in the same manner as we use the term "greens;" yet as the chatsir is mentioned together with onions and garlic in the text, and as the most ancient versions unanimously understand leeks by the Hebrew word, we may be satisfied with our own translation.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

LEEKS

leks (chatsir; ta prasa): This word, elsewhere translated "grass," is in Numbers 11:5 rendered "leeks" in all the ancient VSS, on account of its association with garlic and onions; such a use of the word occurs in the Talmud The leek (Allium porrum) is much grown today in Palestine, while in ancient Egypt this vegetable was renowned.

Strong's Hebrew

2682. chatsir -- green grass, herbage
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition green grass, herbage NASB Word Usage
grass (19), leeks (1), plant (1). grass, hay, herb, leek. ...
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