Strong's Definition
from an unused root apparently meaning to peel; an onion
KJV Usage: onion
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּצָל (be.tsel) — onion. onion
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Crops | ≈ אֲבַטִּיחַ · חָצִיר · קִשֻּׁאָה · שׁוּמִים
onion = plant, with hollow leaves and a hollow stem about 30 centimeters tall with a spherical head of flowers; its root is a round bulb made up of tightly packed layers of fleshy, edible tissue; sharp in taste; ◄ Allium cepa; ► considered one of the tasty things from the life of Egypt that the Israelites longed for as they wandered in the Sinai Desert for forty years
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּצָל] n.m. onion base