POTTAGE.See Food, 3.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
nazid, from zid "to boil." A dish of boiled food, of common materials, as lentils (Gen_25:29; 2Ki_4:38).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Pottage. See Lentils.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
pot?ā́j. See FOOD, III.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pottage
(נָזַיד, nazid, something boiled, Gen_25:29; Gen_25:34). The red pottage for which Esau profanely bartered his birthright was prepared, as we learn from this chapter, by seething lentiles in water, SEE LENTLE; but the common pottage in the East, at the present day, is made by cutting their meat into little pieces, and boiling them with flour, rice, and parsley, all which is afterwards poured into a proper vessel. See Thomson, Land and Book, 2, 397.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.