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Lentiles
(Heb. ‘adashim), a species of vetch (Gen 25:34; 2 Sam 23:11), common in Syria under the name addas. The red pottage made by Jacob was of lentils (Gen 25:29–34). They were among the provisions brought to David when he fled from Absalom (2 Sam 17:28). It is the Ervum lens of Linnaeus, a leguminous plant which produces a fruit resembling a bean.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
