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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Much cultivated in Palestine, as food for man and beast (2 Sam. 17:28²⁸Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, (2 Samuel 17:28); Ezek. 4:9⁹Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. (Ezekiel 4:9)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The common and well-known bean. It grows plentifully in Palestine, and is eaten with rice or mixed with wheat and barley in making bread for the poor (2 Sam. 17:28²⁸Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, (2 Samuel 17:28); Ezek. 4:9⁹Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. (Ezekiel 4:9)).

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Fava Beans

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

6321 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

powl

Phonic:

pole

Meaning:

from an unused root meaning to be thick; a bean (as plump)

KJV Usage:

beans