- Original: קשּׁא - Transliteration: Qishshu' - Phonetic: kish-shoo' - Definition: 1. cucumber - Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be hard) - TWOT entry: 2083a - Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine - Strong's: From an unused root (meaning to be hard); a cucumber (from the difficulty of digestion): - cucumber. Total KJV Occurrences: 1 • cucumbers, 1 Numbers 11:5