HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7848
שִׁטָּה
shit.tah — acacia
acacia tree, acacia wood
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Acacia
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7851
שִׁטִּים
shit.tim — Shittim
Shittim = "the acacias" place of Israel's encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic region and crossing the Jordan into Canaan Also named: a.vel hash.shit.tim (אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים "Abel-shittim" H0063)
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בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה
bet hash.shit.tah — Beth-shittah
§ Beth-shittah = "house of the acacia tree" or "place of the acacia" an unknown location, perhaps an acacia grove
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אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים
a.vel hash.shit.tim — Abel-shittim
Abel Shittim = "meadow of acacias" place in lowlands of Moab Another name of shit.tim (שִׁטִּים "Shittim" H7851G)
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(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 species (A. seyal) is like the hawthorn, a gnarled and thorny tree. It yields the gum-arabic of commerce. It is found in abundance in the Sinaitic peninsula.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.