* the fish.
Ex 16:3 Ps 17:14 Php 3:19
* the cucumbers.
In Hebrew, {kishshuim,} in Arabic, {kiththa,} Chaldee,
{keta,} and Syriac, {kati,} a species of cucumber peculiar to
Egypt, smooth, of a longish cylindrical shape, and about a
foot long. Prosper Alpinus says that it differs from the
common sort by its size, colour, and softness; that its
leaves are smaller, whiter, softer, and rounder; its fruit
larger, greener, smoother, softer, sweeter, and more easy of
digestion than ours. Hasselquist describes it in the same
manner; and adds, that it is very little watery, but firm
like a melon, sweet and cool to the taste, but not so cold as
the watermelon, which is meant by the {avutichim} of the
text.
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