MILLET

MILLET
MILLET, the Panicum miliaceum, a summer plant of the Gramineae family, whose small seeds are utilized as fodder or are sometimes ground to produce a poor quality flour. It is regarded by some as identical with doḥan, one of the ingredients of the flour mixture that Ezekiel was commanded to eat for 390 days (Ezek. 4:9). The probability is, however, that doḥan is sorghum . Doḥan is mentioned a number of times in rabbinic literature together with orez ("rice"), peragim, and shumshemin ("sesame"; Shev. 2:7), as summer plants from which occasionally bread is made (Ḥal. 1:4). Peragim cannot therefore be poppy as is stated in the Arukh of Nathan b. Jehiel (and as the word is used in modern Hebrew), since the poppy is a winter plant and is used only as a spice. From Syrian Aramaic it would seem that peragim is to be identified with millet, an identification compatible with the talmudic sources. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Loew, Flora, 1 (1928), 738–40; H.N. and A.L. Moldenke, Plants of the Bible (1952), index; J. Feliks, Olam ha-Ẓome'aḥ ha-Mikra'i (19682), 154f. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feliks, Ha-Ẓome'aḥ, 46. (Jehuda Feliks)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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