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אֲבַטִּיחַ

ʼăbaṭṭîyach · H20 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. watermelon

    Sweet, juicy fruit; produced by a trailing plant (citrullus vulgaris) cultivated in Egypt along the river Nile; much appreciated

    Examples

    Numbers 11:5 “We remember the fish which we used to eat for free in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

How it’s used

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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אֲבַטִּיחַ names the melon, a cultivated food crop remembered fondly from Egypt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H20. abattich אֲבַטִּחִים noun [masculine] plural water-melons (Mishna אבטיח, Samaritan ;…
H20. abattich
אֲבַטִּחִים noun [masculine] plural water-melons (Mishna אבטיח, Samaritan ; compare LöwNo. 297; Arabic etc.; perhaps loan-word in Hebrew compare Sta§ 258; modern Egyptian ba‰‰ich, bi‰‰ich compare references in Di Num 11:5; on formation compare LagBN 10, who compare Ethiopic aq‰ala) — Egyptian fruit, ׳הָא Num 11:5 (|| הַשּׁוּמִים הַבְּצָלִים, ֶהחָצִיר, הִקִּשֻּׁאִים,); ᵐ5 τοὺς πέπονας.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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