STRONGS NUMBER H20


Word Summary
abattich: watermelon
Original Word: אֲבַטִּיחַ
Transliteration: abattich
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-at-tee'-akh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: watermelon
Meaning: watermelon
Strong's Concordance
melon

Of uncertain derivation; a melon (only plural) -- melon.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H20. abattich

אֲבַטִּחִיםnoun [masculine] plural water-melons (Mishna אבטיח‎, Samaritan ; compare LöwNo. 297; Arabic etc.; perhaps loan-word in Hebrew compare Sta§ 258; modern Egyptian ba‰‰ich, bi‰‰ich compare references in Di Numbers 11:5; on formation compare LagBN 10, who compare Ethiopic aq‰ala) — Egyptian fruit, ׳הָא11:5 ("" הַשּׁוּמִים הַבְּצָלִים, ֶהחָצִיר, הִקִּשֻּׁאִים,‎); ᵐ5τοὺς πέπονας.