Garlic (KJV 'garlick')
VEGETABLE
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 1 verse (KJV)
Vegetable
Description
Garlic — rendered ‘garlick’ in the King James Version — was prized in Egypt for flavoring food and was reportedly valuable enough to be fed to the workers who built the pyramids. It shows up in Scripture only in the wilderness generation’s single wistful complaint.
Key verses
“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”
Numbers 11:5
All 1 referencesshow
- Numbers 11:5