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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We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the 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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We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eats grass as an ox.
The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.
For the waters of Nimrim have run out: for the grass of the courtyard is withered away, the herb fails, there is no green thing.
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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We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
We remember the fish, which we freely ate in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eats grass as an ox.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.
Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.
As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.
He causes the hay to grow for the cattle and grass for the service of man, that he may bring forth bread out of the earth
They shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
The tender grass shows itself, and the hay appears, and the herbs of the mountains are reaped.
For the waters of Nimrim have run out: for the grass of the courtyard is withered away, the herb fails, there is no green thing.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons and a court for young owls.
The parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water; in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
And their inhabitants, of little strength, dismayed and confounded shall be as the grass of the field and as the green shrub as the grass on the housetops, that before it comes to maturity it is dried up.
The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field: