Lexical Summary botnim: pistachio Original Word: בֹּטֶןTransliteration: botnim Phonetic Spelling: (bo'-ten) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: pistachio Meaning: a pistachio-nut Strong's Concordance nut From beten; (only in plural) a pistachio-nut (from its form) -- nut. see HEBREW beten Brown-Driver-Briggs H992. botnim בָּטְנִים noun [masculine] plural pistachio, an oval nut (compare Assyrian bu‰nu COTGloss & SchrMBAK 1881, 419, Aramaic בּוּטְנָא, , Arabic ; on Punic Βουτνούμ BlauZMG 1873, 527) = pistacia terebinthus RobBR i. 208, ii. 222, PostPEF Oct. 1888, 218, No. 214 f; Tr. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc. pist. vera LöwNo. 44); Genesis 43:11 one of the articles carried from Canaan to Egypt by sons of Jacob as present to Joseph; still a delicacy in Egypt and Syria, compare Wetzst in Löwp.420. |
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