עָדָשׁ
adash · lentils
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5742 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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adash (עָדָשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lentils”.
How to say it
a·dash
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A small, cheap legume used to make a stew for the daily meal.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lentils ×3
- lentil ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.
- 2 Samuel 17:28
brought beds, basins, and potter’s vessels, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, and roasted grain,
- 2 Samuel 23:11
After him was Shammah son of Agee, the Hararite. The Philistines gathered in a troop, and there was there a plot of the field full of lentils; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
- Ezekiel 4:9
And you, take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself; for the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you will eat it.