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LENTILS

The fruit of a plant in the legume family (Lens esculenta Moench) cultivated since very ancient times in the Near East. Lentils grew in fields (2 Sam. 23:11), often as tall as 45 cm. (18 in.). The plant put forth a white flower followed by flat pods containing one or two seeds. Judging by the “red stuff,” “pottage,” or “lentil stew” Esau craved from Jacob, lentils were reddish in color (Gen. 25:30-34); Esau was, in fact, thereafter called Edom, the Hebrew word for red (Gen. 25:30).

Lentils were used to make bread (Ezek. 4:9) and even medicine, as the seeds helped ease constipation. Lentils were among the foods given to David and his troops (2 Sam. 17:28). Chiefly used as food for the poor in biblical times, lentil bread remains a part of the diet of the poor in the Middle East today.

J. Randall O’Brien






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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