A short account of the plants and plant products of the Bible : with references for use with Southall's biblical herbarium / edited by H.B. Tristram.

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1897
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Credit: A short account of the plants and plant products of the Bible : with references for use with Southall's biblical herbarium / edited by H.B. Tristram. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    54. PALM .—The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, for which Syria and Palestine were once famous. The Hebrew word for palm, “Tamar,” was a favourite woman’s name (Genesis xxxviii., 6; II. Samuel, xiii,, i). Palm trees frequently mark the site of an oasis in the desert, as at Elim, where there were seventy trees by twelve springs of water (Exodus xv., 27). Jericho was known as the city of palm trees (Deuteronomy xxxiv., 3), but now they are entirely extinct. David says : “ The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree . . . they that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age” (Psalm xcii., 12-14). The palm is commonly found in the courts of temples and mosques. Solomon carved all the walls of the “ Holy of Holies ” round about with palm trees (I. Kings, vi., 29). Palm branches were used in the celebra¬ tions connected with the ingathering of fruits (Leviticus xxiii., 39-40), which celebrations were revived in the time of Ezra (Nehemiah viii., 15). Palm leaves have often been taken as emblems of victory, as in the triumphal entry into Jerusalem (John xii., 12-13 I also Revelations vii., 9). 55. PLANE. — The Oriental plane tree, Platanus orientalis. The R.V. has substituted the “plane” in place of “chestnut tree” and “pine tree” in the A.V. Mentioned
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