LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

αριωθ <Semitic; Hellenistic period>

👉 αριωθ – ‘edible plants’ (LXX: 2 Reg. 4.39).

🅔 A transliteration of the Biblical Hebrew form ʾōrōṯ (pl.) ‘edible plants’, identified as ‘mallow (Malva pusilla Sm.)’.

📖 Data: DCH: I, 371; HALOT: 25. Ref.: GELS: 62; Simotas 1969: 31.