Pottage

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

nazid , from zid "to boil." A dish of boiled food, of common materials, as lentils ( Genesis 25:29;  2 Kings 4:38).

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pottage. See Lentils .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 25:29-34 2 Kings 4:38-41

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 25:29 2 Kings 4:38

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Pottage.  Genesis 25:29. See Lentiles.

King James Dictionary

Pot'Tage, n. Broth soup. See Potage, the more correct orthography.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Pottage. See Food, 3.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See Edom and Food.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(נָזַיד, nazid, something boiled,  Genesis 25:29;  Genesis 25:34). The red pottage for which Esau profanely bartered his birthright was prepared, as we learn from this chapter, by seething lentiles in water, (See Lentle); but the common pottage in the East, at the present day, is made by cutting their meat into little pieces, and boiling them with flour, rice, and parsley, all which is afterwards poured into a proper vessel. See Thomson, Land and Book, 2, 397.