Cucumbers

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Cucumbers
     (Heb. plur. kishshuim; i.e., "hard," "difficult" of digestion,
     only in Num. 11:5). This vegetable is extensively cultivated in
     the East at the present day, as it appears to have been in
     earlier times among the Hebrews. It belongs to the gourd family
     of plants. In the East its cooling pulp and juice are most


     refreshing. "We need not altogether wonder that the Israelites,
     wearily marching through the arid solitudes of the Sinaitic
     peninsula, thought more of the cucumbers and watermelons of
     which they had had no lack in Egypt, rather than of the cruel
     bondage which was the price of these luxuries." Groser's
     Scripture Natural History.
     
       Isaiah speaks of a "lodge" (1:8; Heb. sukkah), i.e., a shed or
     edifice more solid than a booth, for the protection throughout
     the season from spring to autumn of the watchers in a "garden of
     cucumbers."