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 should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and 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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We remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, "Walk through the land, unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks, to see whether any grass may be found that we may save the horses and the mules, that we destroy not the beasts."
No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.
"Behold Behemoth, whom I made with thee, which eateth hay as an ox:
The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains.
The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and the green things gone.
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 should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
We remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, "Walk through the land, unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks, to see whether any grass may be found that we may save the horses and the mules, that we destroy not the beasts."
No: but before it be shot forth, and before it be gathered, it withereth; before any other herb.
"Behold Behemoth, whom I made with thee, which eateth hay as an ox:
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.
As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass.
that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field.
Thou bringest forth grass for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men.
Let them be even as the hay upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be grown up;
which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth, and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains;
The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains.
The waters of Nimrim were dried up, the grass was withered, and the herbs destroyed, and the green things gone.
Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles and thistles in their strongholds; that the dragons may have their pleasure therein, and that they may be a court for Ostriches.
The dry ground shall turn to rivers, and the thirsty to springs of water. Whereas dragons dwelt afore, there shall grow sweet flowers and green rushes.
For their inhabiters shall be like lame men, brought in fear and confounded. They shall be like the grass and green herbs in the field, like the hay upon housetops, that withereth afore it be grown up.
The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.