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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49820" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49820" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> [[Bitter | <p> <strong> [[Bitter Herbs]] </strong> ( <em> merôrîm </em> , Exodus 12:8 , Numbers 9:11 ). The bitter herbs of the modern [[Jewish]] [[Passover]] in [[Palestine]] are specially lettuce and endive. Other salads, such as parsley, cucumber, chicory, and water-cress, are also commonly eaten, indeed are prime favourites. The author of Lamentations 3:15 , in using the same word <em> merôrîm </em> (tr. [Note: translate or translation.] ‘bitterness’), doubtless had more bitter and less wholesome plants in his mind, perhaps the colocynth or <em> Ecballium elaterium </em> , the wild gourd of 2 Kings 4:39 . See, further, Passover. </p> <p> E. W. G. Masterman. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71735" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71735" /> == | ||
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== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1996" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1996" /> == | ||
<p> '''''hûrbs''''' , or '''''ûrbs''''' ( מררים , <i> '''''merōrı̄m''''' </i> ): Originally in the primitive Passover ( Exodus 12:8; Numbers 9:11 ) these were probably merely salads, the simplest and quickest prepared form of vegetable accompaniment to the roasted lamb. Such salads have always been favorites in the Orient. Cucumbers, lettuce, water-cress, parsley and endive are some of those commonly used. Later on the Passover ritual (as it does today) laid emphasis on the idea of "bitterness" as symbolical of Israel's lot in Egypt. In modern Palestine the Jews use chiefly lettuce and endive for the "bitter herbs" of their Passover. In Lamentations 3:15 the same word is used: "He hath filled me with bitterness <i> '''''merōrı̄m''''' </i> , he hath sated me with wormwood." Here the parallelism with "wormwood" suggests some plant more distinctly bitter than the mild salads mentioned above, such, for example, as the colocynth ( <i> Citrullus colocynthus </i> ) or the violently irritating squirting cucumber ( <i> Ecballium elaterium </i> ). </p> | <p> ''''' hûrbs ''''' , or ''''' ûrbs ''''' ( מררים , <i> ''''' merōrı̄m ''''' </i> ): Originally in the primitive Passover ( Exodus 12:8; Numbers 9:11 ) these were probably merely salads, the simplest and quickest prepared form of vegetable accompaniment to the roasted lamb. Such salads have always been favorites in the Orient. Cucumbers, lettuce, water-cress, parsley and endive are some of those commonly used. Later on the Passover ritual (as it does today) laid emphasis on the idea of "bitterness" as symbolical of Israel's lot in Egypt. In modern Palestine the Jews use chiefly lettuce and endive for the "bitter herbs" of their Passover. In Lamentations 3:15 the same word is used: "He hath filled me with bitterness <i> ''''' merōrı̄m ''''' </i> , he hath sated me with wormwood." Here the parallelism with "wormwood" suggests some plant more distinctly bitter than the mild salads mentioned above, such, for example, as the colocynth ( <i> Citrullus colocynthus </i> ) or the violently irritating squirting cucumber ( <i> Ecballium elaterium </i> ). </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15209" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15209" /> == | ||
<p> Bitter Herbs, literally bitters. There has been much difference of opinion respecting the kind of herbs denoted by this word. </p> <p> It however seems very doubtful whether any particular herbs were intended by so general a term as bitters; it is far more probable that it denotes whatever bitter herbs, obtainable in the place where the Passover was eaten, might be fitly used with meat. </p> | <p> [[Bitter]] Herbs, literally bitters. There has been much difference of opinion respecting the kind of herbs denoted by this word. </p> <p> It however seems very doubtful whether any particular herbs were intended by so general a term as bitters; it is far more probable that it denotes whatever bitter herbs, obtainable in the place where the Passover was eaten, might be fitly used with meat. </p> | ||
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