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Bean

פּוֹלStrong’s H6321

pol

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Pol is the Hebrew word usually translated “bean”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,”
2 Samuel 17:28 KJV
Meaning
  1. Beans
How it's translated
  • and bean 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Samuel 1
  • Ezekiel 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

פּוֹל pol · bean

beans

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “bean” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BEAN, noun

A name given to several kinds of pulse, or leguminous seeds, and the plants producing them. They belong to several genera, particularly Vicia, Phaseolus and Dolichos. The varieties most usually cultivated are, the horse bean the mazagan, the kidney bean the cranberry bean the lima bean the frost bean etc. The stalk is erect or climbing, and the fruit generally roundish, oval or flat, and of various colors.

    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.