Lentil
עֲדָשָׁהStrong’s H5742adash (a-dash)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Adash is the Hebrew word usually translated “lentils”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.”
Meaning
- Lentil
How it's translated
- and lentils 2
- lentils 1
- of lentils 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:28Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
- 2 Samuel 23:11And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
- Ezekiel 4:9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲדָשָׁה adash · lentil
lentil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lentil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEN'TIL, noun
[Latin lens.]
A plant of the genus Ervum. It is an annual plant, rising with weak stalks about 18 inches. The seeds, which are contained in a pod, are round, flat, and a little convex in the middle. It is cultivated for fodder, and for its seeds.
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.