Leeks
VEGETABLE
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 1 verse (KJV)
Vegetable
Description
Leeks belonged to the same onion family as garlic and gave Egyptian cooking its pungent, savory backbone. Israel’s wilderness generation named them, alongside fish and melons, among the foods they missed most.
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