Melon
אֲבַטִּחִיםStrong’s H0020avattiach (a-vat-ti-ach)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Avattiach is the Hebrew word usually translated “watermelons”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”
Meaning
- Watermelon, Egyptian fruit
How it's translated
- the watermelons 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אֲבַטִּחִים avattiach · melon
watermelon, Egyptian fruit
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “melon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MEL'ON, noun
[Latin melo; Gr. an apple; Latin mollis.]
The name of certain plants and their fruit, as the water-melon, the musk-melon.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.