{"query": "Easton: Shittah-tree", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d8610d9ae8d6", "title": "Easton: Shittah-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 41:19; R.V., “acacia tree”). Shittah wood was employed in making the various parts of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and must therefore have been indigenous in the desert in which the Israeli"}, {"id": "card_n_0e15d3f7cbfe", "title": "Easton: Acacia", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shittim) Ex. 25:5, R.V. probably the Acacia seyal (the gum-arabic tree); called the “shittah” tree (Isa. 41:19). Its wood is called shittim wood (Ex. 26:15, 26; 25:10, 13, 23, 28, etc.). This sp"}, {"id": "card_n_c5ddce835587", "title": "Easton: Bay tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Named only in Ps. 37:35, Authorized Version. The Hebrew word so rendered is ereh, which simply means “native born”, i.e., a tree not transplanted, but growing on its native soil, and therefore luxuria"}, {"id": "card_n_3b62d04cb5fd", "title": "Easton: Ash", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. o’ren, “tremulous”), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., “fir tree”). It is rendered “pine tree” both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs aran, found still in the "}, {"id": "card_n_b1ad9e3cb264", "title": "Easton: Chestnut tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ’armon; i.e., “naked”), mentioned in connection with Jacob’s artifice regarding the cattle (Gen. 30:37). It is one of the trees of which, because of its strength and beauty, the Assyrian empire "}, {"id": "card_n_759f8b59f423", "title": "Easton: Tree of life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson con"}, {"id": "card_c_7701870b9e50", "title": "Easton: Shittah-tree references Sinai", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Sinai (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_2c315f94ee67", "title": "Easton: Fir", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The uniform rendering in the Authorized Version (marg. R.V., “cypress”) of berosh (2 Sam. 6:5; 1 Kings 5:8, 10; 6:15, 34; 9:11, etc.), a lofty tree (Isa. 55:13) growing on Lebanon (37:24). Its wood wa"}, {"id": "card_n_f0a1c95e9029", "title": "Easton: Sycamore", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the"}, {"id": "card_n_60b0e3e89d33", "title": "Easton: Teil tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6:13, the terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists. The Hebrew word here used (elah) is rendered oak (q.v.) in Gen. 35:4; J"}, {"id": "card_n_c860098c7eae", "title": "Easton: Olive-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The dove from the ark brought an olive-branch to Noah (Gen. 8:11). It is mentioned among the most notable trees of Palestine, where it was cultivated long before "}, {"id": "card_n_8c107f598c19", "title": "Easton: Fig", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were "}, {"id": "card_n_91d0d2f6194a", "title": "Easton: Plane tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘armon (Gen. 30:37; Ezek. 31:8), rendered “chesnut” in the Authorized Version, but correctly “plane tree” in the Revised Version and the LXX. This tree is frequently found in Palestine, both on t"}, {"id": "card_n_598a3e749813", "title": "Easton: Tamarisk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., “grove,” “tree”); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a “very graceful tree, with long feathery "}, {"id": "card_n_1d71e0bdc95a", "title": "Easton: Oil-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Isa. 41:19; R.V. marg., “oleaster”), Heb. ‘etz shemen, rendered “olive tree” in 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32, 33 (R.V., “olive wood”) and “pine branches” in Neh. 8:15 (R.V., “branches of wild olive”), was so"}, {"id": "card_n_a7fc06cc491a", "title": "Easton: Box-tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according to some, a species of cedar growing in Lebanon. The words of Ezek. 27:6 literally translated are, “Thy benches they have made of ivory,"}, {"id": "card_n_3aa1ff7037be", "title": "Easton: Sycamine tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned only in Luke 17:6. It is rendered by Luther “mulberry tree” (q.v.), which is most probably the correct rendering. It is found of two species, the black mulberry (Morus nigra) and the white m"}, {"id": "card_n_65f10f7bb30e", "title": "Easton: Cypress", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tirzah, “hardness”), mentioned only in Isa. 44:14 (R.V., “holm tree”). The oldest Latin version translates this word by ilex, i.e., the evergreen oak, which may possibly have been the tree inten"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb94a85bd2c", "title": "Easton: Palm tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tamar), the date-palm characteristic of Palestine. It is described as “flourishing” (Ps. 92:12), tall (Cant. 7:7), “upright” (Jer. 10:5). Its branches are a symbol of victory (Rev. 7:9). “Rising"}, {"id": "card_n_d6c43e1e28c4", "title": "Easton: Husk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Num. 6:4 (Heb. zag) it means the “skin” of a grape. In 2 Kings 4:42 (Heb. tsiqlon) it means a “sack” for grain, as rendered in the Revised Version. In Luke 15:16, in the parable of the Prodigal Son"}]}