BEAN

פול , occurs 2 Sam. xvii, 28, and Ezek. iv, 9. A common legume. Those most usually cultivated in Syria are the white horse-bean, fab a rotunda oblong a , and the kidney-bean, phaseolis minimus, fructu virid i ova to , called by the natives masch . The Arabic ban , the name of the coffee berry, corresponds with our bean, and is probably its etymon.