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אבטיח

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Phonetics · a-va-TI-ach

Watermelon (Numbers 11:5).

Register: casual · formalPart of speech: noun (m.)Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

"Watermelon" — one of the foods of Egypt the wilderness generation longed for, straight from Numbers 11:5.

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Reviewed 2026-07-30

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