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PROVENDER.—1. mispô′ (Gen_24:25; Gen_24:32; Gen_42:27; Gen_43:24, Jdg_19:19; Jdg_19:21), a general name for cattle food. 2. bĕîl, Job_6:5 ‘fodder’; bĕîl châmîts, Isa_30:24 ‘clean (AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘savoury,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘salted’) provender,’ i.e. fodder mixed with salt or aromatic herbs. The ordinary food of cattle in Palestine—besides pasturage—is tibn (broken straw), kursenneh (the vetch, Vicia ervilia), bran (for fattening especially), and sometimes hay made from the flowering herbs of spring.
E. W. G. Masterman.