KJV King James Version
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:
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 11:5
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:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
WEB World English Bible
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
ASV American Standard Version
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
We have remembered the fish which we do eat in Egypt for nought, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick;
Surrounding context — Numbers 11
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.
3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
4 And the mixt multitude that [was] among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
5 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:
6 But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes.
7 And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
8 [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
זָכַ֙רְנוּ֙H2142 · za.kharto rememberאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַדָּגָ֔הH1710 · da.gahfishאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichנֹאכַ֥לH398 · a.khalto eatבְּמִצְרַ֖יִםH4714 · mits.ra.yimEgyptחִנָּ֑םH2600 · chin.namfor nothingאֵ֣תH853 · et[Obj.]הַקִּשֻּׁאִ֗יםH7180 · qish.shu.ahcucumberוְאֵת֙H853 · et[Obj.]הָֽאֲבַטִּחִ֔יםH20 · a.vat.ti.achmelonוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הֶחָצִ֥ירH2682 · cha.tsirgrassוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַבְּצָלִ֖יםH1211 · be.tselonionוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַשּׁוּמִֽים׃H7762 · shumgarlic
Cross-references
Exodus 16:3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Psalm 17:14From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.Philippians 3:19Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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