BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6220
ash.vat — Ashvath
A man of the tribe of Asher living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.33; son of: Japhlet (H3310); brother of: Pasach (H6457) and Bimhal (H1118) § Ashvath = "sleek" one of the sons of Japhlet of the tribe of Asher
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8875
prasinos — leek colored
leek colored
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8877
prason — a leek
a leek , Lat. porrum, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Heb. hatsir; the Allium porrum), rendered “grass” in 1 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 19:26, Job 40:15, etc.; “herb” in Job 8:12; “hay” in Prov. 27:25, and Isa. 15:6; “leeks” only in Num. 11:5. This Hebrew word seems to denote in this last passage simply herbs, such as lettuce or savoury herbs cooked as kitchen vegetables, and not necessarily what are now called leeks. The leek was a favourite vegetable in Egypt, and is still largely cultivated there and in Palestine.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
