Dict: easton - Lentiles

easton:

Lentiles @ (Heb. 'adashim), a species of vetch kjv@Genesis:25:34; kjv@2Samuel:23:11), common in Syria under the name addas. The red pottage made by Jacob was of lentils kjv@Genesis:25:29-34). They were among the provisions brought to David when he fled from Absalom ( kjv@2Samuel:17:28). It is the Ervum lens of Linnaeus, a leguminous plant which produces a fruit resembling a bean.