Lexical Definition

‎שׁוּם‎ shûwm (shoom) garlic ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to exhale

garlic.

• garlic (from its rank odor)

1) garlic

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שׁוּם‎] noun [masculine] garlic; — plural ‎שׁוּמִים‎ Num 11:5 (J) (allium sativum, Linn, Thes Löw^{No. 336} Post^{Hast. DB ii. 110} Tristr^{NHB 448} (or allium Ascalonicum, compare Buhl, after Tristr^{FFP 430}; see this and Post^{Flora 789} for many kinds of allium); Arabic , Aramaic ‎תּוּמָא‎, , Assyrian šûmu). ‎שֻׁמָתִי‎ see ‎שֻׁמָה‎ infra.

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