shittah

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'I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together' (Isa 41:19 Can any think that trees are the things taken care of here?

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  1. noun A tree, probably a species of acacia, that was a source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible.

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  • Thus in practice many on lenient in the spirit of Reb Moshe's shittah. —  Your Moral Leader
  • 'I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together' (Isa 41:19 Can any think that trees are the things taken care of here? —  Works of John Bunyan — Complete
  • Antipas, its polished marble gleaming through the tops of palms and the lace-like green of shittah trees. —  The Coming of the King
  • It is the _mimosa nilotica_ of Linnæus, the _shittah_ of the Hebrew writers, and grows abundantly in Palestine. —  The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the —  Among the Trees at Elmridge
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  1. Hebrew šiṭṭâ; akin to Arabic sanṭ, both from Egyptian šnḏt, šnty, acacia.
 

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