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LENTILS (‘ådâshîm. Gen_25:34, 2Sa_17:28; 2Sa_23:11, Eze_4:9).—These are without doubt the Arab [Note: Arabic.] , ‘adas—a kind of small reddish bean, the product of Ervum lens, a small leguminous plant 6 or 8 inches high, much cultivated in Palestine, and ripening in June or July. It is the bean from which the well-known revalenta, a food for invalids, is made. In Palestine a kind of ‘pottage’ known as mujedderah, universally popular, is made from it. It is of a reddish-brown colour, and is certainly the original ‘red pottage’ of Esau (Gen_25:30).
E. W. G. Masterman.