Reference: Leek
American
A bulbous vegetable resembling the onion. The Hebrews complained in the wilderness, that manna grew insipid to them; they longed for the leeks and onions of Egypt, Nu 11:5. Hassel-quist says the karrat, or leek, is surely one of those after which the Israelites pined; for is has been cultivated in Egypt from time immemorial. The Hebrew word is usually translated "grass" in the English Bible. Its original meaning is supposed to be greens or grass.
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How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!
Easton
(Heb hatsir; the Allium porrum), rendered "grass" in 1Ki 18:5; 2Ki 19:26; Job 40:15, etc.; "herb" in Job 8:12; "hay" in Pr 27:25, and Isa 15:6; "leeks" only in Nu 11:5. This Hebrew word seems to denote in this last passage simply herbs, such as lettuce or savoury herbs cooked as kitchen vegetables, and not necessarily what are now called leeks. The leek was a favourite vegetable in Egypt, and is still largely cultivated there and in Palestine.
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How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!
Ahab had instructed Obadiah, "Go throughout the land to all of the water springs and to all of the valleys. Maybe we'll find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive. Also, maybe we won't have to kill some of our cattle."
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.
"Please observe Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.
When the grass disappears, and new growth appears, the mountain spices will be harvested,
The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.
Watsons
LEEK, ????, in Nu 11:5, translated "leek;" in 1Ki 18:5; 2Ki 19:26; Job 40:15; Ps 37:2; 90:5; 103:15; 104:14; 129:6; 147:8; Isa 35:7; 37:27; 40:6, it is rendered "grass;" in Job 8:12, "herb;" in Pr 27:25; Isa 15:6, "hay;" and in Isa 34:13, "a court." It is much of the same nature with the onion. The kind called karrat by the Arabians, the allium porrum of Linnaeus, Hasselquist says, must certainly have been one of those desired by the children of Israel, as it has been cultivated and esteemed from the earliest times to the present in Egypt. The inhabitants are very fond of eating it raw, as sauce for their roasted meat; and the poor people eat it raw with their bread, especially for breakfast. There is reason, however, to doubt whether this plant is intended in Nu 11:5, and so differently rendered every where else: it should rather intend such vegetables as grow promiscuously with grass. Ludolphus supposes that it may mean lettuce and sallads in general; and Maillet observes, that the succory and endive are eaten with great relish by the people in Egypt: some or all of these may be meant.
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How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!
How we remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for free! And the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic!
Ahab had instructed Obadiah, "Go throughout the land to all of the water springs and to all of the valleys. Maybe we'll find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive. Also, maybe we won't have to kill some of our cattle."
While they are still green and not yet ready to be harvested, they wither before any plant.
"Please observe Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.
Indeed, they soon will wither like grass, and like green herbs they will fade away.
You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.
A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,
He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,
May they become like a tuft of grass on a roof top, that withers before it takes root
He shields the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth and making grass grow on the hills.
When the grass disappears, and new growth appears, the mountain spices will be harvested,
The Nimrim waters are desolate; the grass is withered, its vegetation gone; there is no foliage left.
Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.
the burning sands will become a pool, and the thirsty ground fountains of water. In the haunts of jackals there will be a verdant resting place with reeds and rushes."
Their inhabitants are devoid of power, and are terrified and put to shame. They've become like plants in the field, like green shoots, like grass on rooftops, scorched by the east wind.
A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.