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Melon
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Numbers 11:5; 'abatchim . The Arabs call the water melon (Cucumis citrullus ) batech . Cultivated on the Nile banks after the inundation from May to July. It is meat, drink and physic to the Egyptians. The common melon (Cucumis melo ) also grows well in Egypt. The same heat (in God's gracious providence) which dries up the animal frame fills with refrigerant liquid the vegetables and fruits of this class.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Melon'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/m/melon.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Melon'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/m/melon.html. 1949.
