חציר, in Numbers xi, 5, translated leek;” in 1 Kings xviii, 5; 2
Kings xix, 26; Job xl, 15; Psalm xxxvii, 2; xc, 5; ciii, 15; civ, 14;
cxxix, 6; cxlvii, 8; Isaiah xxxv, 7; xxxvii, 27; xl, 6, it is rendered
grass;” in Job viii, 12, herb;” in Prov. xxvii, 25; Isaiah xv, 6, hay;”
and in Isaiah xxxiv, 13, a court.” It is much of the same nature with
the onion. The kind called _karrat_ by the Arabians, the _allium porrum_
of Linnæus, Hasselquist says, must certainly have been one of those
desired by the children of Israel, as it has been cultivated and
esteemed from the earliest times to the present in Egypt. The
inhabitants are very fond of eating it raw, as sauce for their roasted
meat; and the poor people eat it raw with their bread, especially for
breakfast. There is reason, however, to doubt whether this plant is
intended in Num. xi, 5, and so differently rendered every where else: it
should rather intend such vegetables as grow promiscuously with grass.
Ludolphus supposes that it may mean lettuce and sallads in general; and
Maillet observes, that the succory and endive are eaten with great
relish by the people in Egypt: some or all of these may be meant.
Kings xix, 26; Job xl, 15; Psalm xxxvii, 2; xc, 5; ciii, 15; civ, 14;
cxxix, 6; cxlvii, 8; Isaiah xxxv, 7; xxxvii, 27; xl, 6, it is rendered
grass;” in Job viii, 12, herb;” in Prov. xxvii, 25; Isaiah xv, 6, hay;”
and in Isaiah xxxiv, 13, a court.” It is much of the same nature with
the onion. The kind called _karrat_ by the Arabians, the _allium porrum_
of Linnæus, Hasselquist says, must certainly have been one of those
desired by the children of Israel, as it has been cultivated and
esteemed from the earliest times to the present in Egypt. The
inhabitants are very fond of eating it raw, as sauce for their roasted
meat; and the poor people eat it raw with their bread, especially for
breakfast. There is reason, however, to doubt whether this plant is
intended in Num. xi, 5, and so differently rendered every where else: it
should rather intend such vegetables as grow promiscuously with grass.
Ludolphus supposes that it may mean lettuce and sallads in general; and
Maillet observes, that the succory and endive are eaten with great
relish by the people in Egypt: some or all of these may be meant.