The word literally means the vomiter, and the pelican is so called from its vomiting the shells and other things which it has voraciously swallowed. (See PELICAN.) Corn The word so rendered (dagan) in Gen 27:28, Gen 27:37; Num 18:27; Deu 28:51; Lam 2:12 is a general term representing all the commodities we usually describe by the words corn, grain, seeds, peas, beans.