Job 30:4 (KJV)

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Who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat
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for their meat. 2Ki 4:38 2Ki 4:39 Am 7:14 Lu 15:16

mallows.The Hebrew {malluäch,} in Arabic, {malluch,} and in Syriac {mallucho,} is probably the [Lalima or Lalimos] of the Greeks, and {halimus} of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten. juniper roots.The Hebrew {rothem,} in Arabic, {ratim,} and in Spanish, {retama,} most probably signifies the {genista} or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.

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