H0992

בָּטְנִים

bo.tenH:N-M

pistachio

pistachio nuts-delicacy given to Joseph by Jacob through his sons

The KJV translates H0992 in the following manner:

nuts (2x)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

בָּטְנִים noun [masculine] plural pistachio, an oval nut (compare Assyrian bu‰nu COT^Gloss & Schr^{MBAK 1881, 419}, Aramaic בּוּטְנָא, , Arabic ; on Punic Βουτνούμ Blau^{ZMG 1873, 527}) = pistacia terebinthus Rob^{BR i. 208, ii. 222}, Post^{PEF Oct. 1888, 218, No. 214 f; Tr. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc.} pist. vera Löw^{No. 44}); Gen 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 Löw^p.420.

1 occurrence

Genesis 43:11