חֲרוּב I m. (חרב) [dry,] 1) carob-pod; carob-tree. B. Bath. IV, 8 ח׳ שאינו מורכב a carob-tree which has not yet been ingrafted (bears no fruit). B. Mets. 59ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. חֲרוּבִים, חֲרוּבִין. R. Hash. 15ᵇ. B. Bath. 70ᵃ. Lev. R. s. 35, a. e. (play on חרב תאכלו, Is. I, 20) ח׳ תֹּאכְלוּ (some ed. וחרבין, corr. acc.) ye shall eat carobs (live in poverty); a. fr. —2) a variety of beans, the pods of which resemble the carob, v. חֲרוּבָא. Kil. I, 2.