cha.tsir denotes a food plant remembered among Egypt's produce and pictured as withering in devastation.

The attested uses show a plant named among remembered foods in Numbers 11:5 and as something that withers when Nimrim's waters become devastated in Isaiah 15:6; the evidence supports one plant-term use rather than distinct senses.

1. A food plant subject to withering · dominant

   In Numbers 11:5, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in a remembered list of foods eaten in Egypt; the APB renders the list with “the leeks.” In Isaiah 15:6, the same form is in the clause about Nimrim's devastated waters, and the APB renders it as “the leek has withered,” alongside grass being finished and no green being present.

   Numbers 11:5Isaiah 15:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “the leeks” in the remembered food list of Numbers 11:5 and “the leek” in the withering clause of Isaiah 15:6. These are translation renderings of whole verses.