Pottage

Heb. nazid, “boiled”, a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).

[Lentils]

POT'TAGE. Gen 25:29. At this day, in many parts of the East, lentiles are boiled or stewed like beans with oil and garlic, and make a dish of a chocolate color, which is eaten as pottage. Other ingredients were used, as in soups of modern times. 2 Kgs 4:39.

POT'TAGE. Gen 25:29. At this day, in many parts of the East, lentiles are boiled or stewed like beans with oil and garlic, and make a dish of a chocolate color, which is eaten as pottage. Other ingredients were used, as in soups of modern times. 2 Kgs 4:39.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.