Garlic
שׁוּםStrong’s H7762shum
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shum is the Hebrew word usually translated “garlic”. 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
- Garlic
How it's translated
- the garlic 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
שׁוּם shum · garlic
garlic
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “garlic” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
G'ARLIC, noun
A plant of the genus Allium, having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic inclosed in a common membranous coat and easily separable.
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.