lentiles

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lentiles - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

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