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title: עֲדָשָׁה — lentile · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲדָשָׁה (5742), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: lentile. BDB 1906: n.f. lentile. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲדָשָׁה

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«עֲדָשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lentile** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 5742 · **BDB:** עֲדָשָׁה

### Glosses

lentils (3); of.lentils (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lentile [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5742/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lentile [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5742/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lentile (NH עֲדָשָׁה id.; LöwNo. 140; Arabic عَدَسٌ; on formation v. LagBN 50);—pl. עֲדָשִׁים growing 2 S 23:11; art. of food, 2 S 17:28; Ez 4:9; נְוִיד ע׳ Gn 25:34 (J) pottage of lentiles.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲדָשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5742/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 17:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.28/)

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מִשְׁכָּ֤ב וְסַפּוֹת֙ וּכְלִ֣י יוֹצֵ֔ר וְחִטִּ֥ים וּשְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְקֶ֣מַח וְקָלִ֑י וּפ֥וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֖ים וְקָלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* bed\[s\] and basins and a.vessel of.a.potter and wheat(s) and barley(s) and flour and roasted.grain and bean\[s\] and lentils and roasted.grain

*JPS 1917:* brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

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[Genesis 25:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.34/)

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וְיַעֲקֹ֞ב נָתַ֣ן לְעֵשָׂ֗ו לֶ֚חֶם וּנְזִ֣יד עֲדָשִׁ֔ים וַיֹּ֣אכַל וַיֵּ֔שְׁתְּ וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ וַיִּ֥בֶז עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶת־הַבְּכֹרָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Jacob he.gave to Esau bread and cooked.food of.lentils and he.ate and he.drank and he.arose and he.went and he.despised Esau (et) the birthright

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.

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