Cucumber
קִשֻּׁאָהStrong’s H7180qishshuah (qish-shu-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qishshuah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cucumbers”. 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
- Cucumber
How it's translated
- the cucumbers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קִשֻּׁאָה qishshuah · cucumber
cucumber
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cucumber” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUCUMBER, noun
[Latin]
The name of a plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucumis. The flower is yellow and bell-shaped; and the stalks are long, slender and trailing on the ground, or climbing by their claspers.
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.