. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Common Leek(Al!iunL Porrum), = grass) (Grass 1) is derived from a root signifying to be green, and may therefore stand in this pas-sage for any green food, lettuce, endive, &c, as Lu-. dolf and Maillet have conjectured (compare our. Fenugreek (Trigondla Fanum-Graccum), term greens ); yet as it is mentioned togetherwith onions and garlic in the text, and as themost ancient versions unanimously understand leeksby the Hebrew word, we may be satisfied with our own translation, which is justified by the greencolor of the leek, and the grass-like form of i
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Common Leek(Al!iunL Porrum), = grass) (Grass 1) is derived from a root signifying to be green, and may therefore stand in this pas-sage for any green food, lettuce, endive, &c, as Lu-. dolf and Maillet have conjectured (compare our. Fenugreek (Trigondla Fanum-Graccum), term greens ); yet as it is mentioned togetherwith onions and garlic in the text, and as themost ancient versions unanimously understand leeksby the Hebrew word, we may be satisfied with our own translation, which is justified by the greencolor of the leek, and the grass-like form of itsleaves. Another interpretation, first proposed byHengstenberg, and received by Kitto (Pictorial Bi-ble, Num. xi. 5), adopts a more literal translationof the original word, for, says Kitto, among thewonders in the natural history of Egypt, it is men-tioned by travellers that the common people thereeat with special relish a kind of grass similar Mayer says of this plant (the fenugreek,Trigonella Fozmim-Grcecum), that it is similar toclover, but its leaves more pointed, and that greatquantities of it are eaten by the people. The leekis too well known to need description. Its botani-cal name is Allium Porrwm. Lees. The Hebrew shemer bears the radicalsense of
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