* the cedar tree.
The word {airez,} whence the Chaldee and Syriac {arzo,} and
the Arabic and Ethiopic {arz,} and Spanish {alerze,}
unquestionably denotes the cedar; it is thus rendered by the
LXX. and other versions, [kedros,] and by the Vulgate
{cedrus;} and the inhabitants of mount Lebanon still call it
{ars.} The cedar is a large and nobel evergreen tree, and
grows on the most elevated part of the mountain, is taller
than the pine, and so thick that five men together could
scarcely fathom one. It shoots out its branches at ten or
twelve feet from the ground; they are large and distant from
each other, and are perpetually green. The wood is of a brown
colour, very solid and incorruptible, if preserved from wet.
The tree bears a small cone, like that of the pine.
Nu 24:6 2Ki 19:23 Ps 92:12
* the hyssop.
Ex 12:22 Nu 19:18 Ps 51:7 Heb 9:19
* of beasts.
Ge 1:20-25
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