Provender
Provender [1]
prov´en - dẽr ((1) מספּוא , miṣpō' , from obsolete ספא , ṣāphā' , "to feed," fodder for cattle in general ( Genesis 24:25 , Genesis 24:32; Genesis 42:27; Judges 19:19 , Judges 19:21 ); (2) בּליל , belı̄l , from בּלל , bālal , "to mix": "Loweth the ox over his fodder?" ( Job 6:5 ); חמיץ בּליל , belı̄l ḥamı̄c : "The young asses that till the ground shall eat savory (Hebrew "salted") provender" ( Isaiah 30:24 ); this is fodder mixed with salt or aromatic herbs): The ordinary provender in Palestine, besides fresh pasturage, is tibn , i.e. straw broken on the threshing floor, kursenneh (Vetch, Vicia errilia ), given especially to camels and milch cows; bran, for fattening and especially in cold weather; and, occasionally, hay made from the dried mixed grass and herbs which spring up luxuriously after the rains. The Circassian colonists East of the Jordan are teaching their neighbors the value of this food, so long neglected.
