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2 Samuel 5:23

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fetch: Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:7; 1 Chronicles 14:14; Matthew 9:29-30, Matthew 8:23-25; John 9:6-7

the mulberry trees: The word bechaim:, rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, απιων:, pear-trees, as the LXX also render in 1 Chronicles 14:14-15; and so the Vulgate in both places has pyrorum:. The Rabbins, however, believe bacha: signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call baca:, from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from bachah: to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of beca:, with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire. Its berries are poisonous to the sheep.

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