Leeks (Chatsir)

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Numbers 11:5

Leek Field

The Hebrew word seems to refer to what is “green,” and is often translated “grass”; twice it is rendered “hay” and once “herb,” but the leek is very likely referred to in Numbers 11:5⁵We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: (Numbers 11:5). The Israelites, longed for such as they had eaten in Egypt. The Allium porrum has long been a favorite in the East. Dr. Kitto preferred the Trigonella foerum graecum, a grass similar to clover.

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Allium Porrum

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Trigonella Foerum Graecum