BEANS (פּﯴל, H7038, can mean pea.) Beans are mentioned twice—in 2 Samuel 17:28 and Ezekiel 4:9.

All botanists agree that pol is the broad bean, Faba vulgaris. This is an annual, producing scented, pea-like flowers, followed by long, thick pods. The plants are three ft. high, and grow quite erect. The beans inside are large, nearly round, and when they ripen, are black or brown. The scent from a field of beans may be smelled by passers-by from about the middle of January to the middle of March. The fragrance travels quite long distances. In Pal., dried beans are ground into a flour and made into bread. They also can be cooked as a vegetable.

Broad beans have been found in the coffins of mummies in Egypt.