HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5138
נָזִיד
na.zid — stew
boiled food, soup, pottage, thing sodden or boiled
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Pottage
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Heb. nazid, “boiled”, a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.