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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Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
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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Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
Ahab said to Obadiah: Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.
Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you. It feeds on grass as cattle do.
The hay appears and the tender grass shows itself. Herbs of the mountains are gathered.
The Brook of Nimrim is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is 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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Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
Remember all the free fish we ate in Egypt and the cucumbers, watermelons, leeks, onions, and garlic we had?
Ahab said to Obadiah: Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.
Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you. It feeds on grass as cattle do.
They will quickly dry up like grass and whither away like green plants.
You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.
Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
You cause the grass to grow for the cattle and vegetation for the labor of man. That he may bring forth food from the earth,
Let them be like grass upon the housetops. It withers before it grows up.
He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains.
The hay appears and the tender grass shows itself. Herbs of the mountains are gathered.
The Brook of Nimrim is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.
Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches.
The parched ground will become a lake, and dry land will be filled with springs. Marsh grass and reeds will grow where jackals used to live.
Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.