דחן, Ezek. iv, 9, a kind of plant so called from its thrusting
forth such a quantity of grains. Thus in Latin it is called _millium_,
as if one stalk bore a thousand seeds. It has been supposed that the
_dochan_ means what is now called in the east _durra_; which, according
to Niebuhr, is a sort of millet, and when made into bad bread with
camel’s milk, oil, butter, or grease, is almost the only food which is
eaten by the common people in Arabia Felix. I found it so disagreeable,”
says he, that I should willingly have preferred plain barley bread to
it.” This illustrates the appointment of it to the Prophet Ezekiel as a
part of his hard fare. _Durra_ is also used in Palestine and Syria, and
it is generally agreed that it yields much more than any other kind of
grain. Hiller and Celsius insist that the _dochan_ is the _panic_; but
Forskal has expressly mentioned the _dokn_, _holcus dochna_, as a kind
of maize, of considerable use in food; and Brown, in his Travels,
describes the mode of cultivating it.
forth such a quantity of grains. Thus in Latin it is called _millium_,
as if one stalk bore a thousand seeds. It has been supposed that the
_dochan_ means what is now called in the east _durra_; which, according
to Niebuhr, is a sort of millet, and when made into bad bread with
camel’s milk, oil, butter, or grease, is almost the only food which is
eaten by the common people in Arabia Felix. I found it so disagreeable,”
says he, that I should willingly have preferred plain barley bread to
it.” This illustrates the appointment of it to the Prophet Ezekiel as a
part of his hard fare. _Durra_ is also used in Palestine and Syria, and
it is generally agreed that it yields much more than any other kind of
grain. Hiller and Celsius insist that the _dochan_ is the _panic_; but
Forskal has expressly mentioned the _dokn_, _holcus dochna_, as a kind
of maize, of considerable use in food; and Brown, in his Travels,
describes the mode of cultivating it.