pottage

noun (pottages) (old use)

«pottage» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition and Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A thick soup or stew of vegetables, grain, meat or fish, cooked in a pot. tree →

In the lessons

in old tales, the thick food a cook or a magic mill makes for a feast.

Examples

He gobbled up all the pottage. tree →
Grind herrings and milk pottage, said the master. tree →
The cook stirred the pottage all afternoon. tree →

Note

nothing for maths.

In Jewish tradition

Jacob cooked a red lentil stew, and Esau sold his birthright for it. The stew is why Esau was called Edom, meaning "red". In Kings, Elisha's followers cook a pottage that becomes poisonous with wild gourds. Haggai also lists pottage among everyday foods.

Interpretation. The rabbis said Esau showed he did not value the birthright, since he gave it up for a meal. The lentils are also linked with mourning. Elisha's story is read as a wonder in which the prophet's word made the food safe.

Examples

And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. (Torah GEN.25.34, JPS 1917) tree →
And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was his name called Edom. (Torah GEN.25.30, JPS 1917) tree →
And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said: 'O man of God, there is death in the pot.' And they could not eat thereof. (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917) tree →
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not. (Prophets 2KI.4.39, JPS 1917) tree →
If one bear hallowed flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy?' And the priests answered and said: 'No.' (Prophets HAG.2.12, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths.

Early Modern English

Then and now

Old-fashioned; today we say soup or stew, and "pottage" is found mainly in old texts.

Examples

And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
Then he went and drank up all the soup, and gobbled up all the pottage, and then he saw the cock lying on a plate. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way. (Torah GEN.25.34, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Today: thick soup, stew.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «pottage» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«pottage» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «pottage» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«pottage» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «pottage» in the Early Modern English dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«pottage» in the Early Modern English dictionary on Mova free.

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