Lexical Definition

‎בֹּטֶן‎ bôṭen (bo'-ten) pistachio ^H:N-M
from ‎בֶּטֶן‎

nut.

• (only in plural) a pistachio-nut (from its form)

1) pistachio nuts-delicacy given to Joseph by Jacob through his sons

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בָּטְנִים‎ noun [masculine] plural pistachio, an oval nut (compare Assyrian bu‰nu COT^Gloss & Schr^{MBAK 1881, 419}, Aramaic ‎בּוּטְנָא‎, , Arabic ; on Punic Βουτνούμ Blau^{ZMG 1873, 527}) = pistacia terebinthus Rob^{BR i. 208, ii. 222}, Post^{PEF Oct. 1888, 218, No. 214 f; Tr. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc.} pist. vera Löw^{No. 44}); Gen 43:11 one of the articles carried from Canaan to Egypt by sons of Jacob as present to Joseph; still a delicacy in Egypt and Syria, compare Wetzst in Löw^p.420.

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