{"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_src_word_shittah_tree", "title": "shittah tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "shittah tree: (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia — syn: shittah"}, {"id": "card_src_word_shittah", "title": "shittah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "shittah: (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia — syn: shittah tree"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h1029", "title": "H1029 — בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה (bet hash.shit.tah): Beth-shittah", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה (bet hash.shit.tah), Strong's H1029: Beth-shittah. § Beth-shittah = \"house of the acacia tree\" or \"place of the acacia\" an unknown location, perhaps an acacia grove"}, {"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_c_b84dea4bec8a", "title": "Easton: Sea, The ↔ Easton: Shittah-tree", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_place_q_t — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"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_src_taxon_4013", "title": "Toxicodendron vernicifluum — Chinese lacquer", "shelf": "taxonomy", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Chinese lacquer (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) — a species. In the tree of life under Toxicodendron. Also known as: Chinese lacquer, Chinese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer tree, Japanese lacquer-tree, l"}, {"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_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_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_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_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_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_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_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,"}]}