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title: אֲבַטִּיחַ — water-melons · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבַטִּיחַ (20), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: water-melons. BDB 1906: pl. water-melons. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבַטִּיחַ

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«אֲבַטִּיחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **water-melons** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 20 · **BDB:** אֲבַטִּחִים

### Glosses

watermelons (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

water-melons [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/20/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pl. water-melons [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/20/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. water-melons (Mish. אבטיח, Sam. ࠁࠈࠉࠇ; cf. LöwNo. 297; Arabic بِطِّيخٌ etc.; perhaps loan-word in Heb. cf. Sta§ 258; mod. Egyptian baṭṭich, biṭṭich cf. reff. in Di Nu 11:5; on formation cf. LagBN 10, who comp. Ethiopic aqṭala)—Egyptian fruit, הָא׳ Nu 11:5 (‖ הִקִּשֻּׁאִים, הֶֽחָצִיר, הַבְּצָלִים, הַשּׁוּמִים); 𝔊 τοὺς πέπονας.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבַטִּיחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/20/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 11:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.5/)

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זָכַ֙רְנוּ֙ אֶת־הַדָּגָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־נֹאכַ֥ל בְּמִצְרַ֖יִם חִנָּ֑ם אֵ֣ת הַקִּשֻּׁאִ֗ים וְאֵת֙ הָֽאֲבַטִּחִ֔ים וְאֶת־הֶחָצִ֥יר וְאֶת־הַבְּצָלִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַשּׁוּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* we.remember (et) the fish which we.ate in Egypt for.nothing (et) the cucumbers and (et) the watermelons and (et) the leek\[s\] and (et) the onions and (et) the garlic(s)

*JPS 1917:* We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

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