. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Burckhardt {Trav. p. 323) as grow-ing in gardens near Tiberias, and which he was in-formed was the balsam, cannot have been the treein question. The A. V. never renders Bdsaiii by balm; it gives this word as the representative ofthe Hebrew tzeri, or tzori pjALJi]. The formBcsem or Bosem, which is of nequent occmuence in SPICE. SPICES the 0. T., may well be represented by the generalterm of spices, or sweet odours, in accordancewith the renderings of the LXX. and Viilg. Thebalm of Gilead tree grows in some parts of Arabiaand Africa, and is seldom more than fitle
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Burckhardt {Trav. p. 323) as grow-ing in gardens near Tiberias, and which he was in-formed was the balsam, cannot have been the treein question. The A. V. never renders Bdsaiii by balm; it gives this word as the representative ofthe Hebrew tzeri, or tzori pjALJi]. The formBcsem or Bosem, which is of nequent occmuence in SPICE. SPICES the 0. T., may well be represented by the generalterm of spices, or sweet odours, in accordancewith the renderings of the LXX. and Viilg. Thebalm of Gilead tree grows in some parts of Arabiaand Africa, and is seldom more than fitleen feethigh, with straggling branches and satnty balsam is chiefly obtained from incisions in thebark, but the substance is procured also from thegreen and ripe berries. The balsam orchards nearJericho appear to have existed at the time of Titusby whose legions they were taken formal possessionof, but no remains of this celebrated plant are nowto be seen in Palestine. (See Scripture Herbal,p. 33.) SPICE, SPICES 1369. Balsam of Gilead (Arni/ris Gileadensis). 2. Necoth (n{<33 : : aromatd). The company of Ishmaelitish merchants to whom Josephwas sold were on their way from Gilead to Egypt,with their camels bearing necoth, Ueri [Balm],and lot (ladanum) (Gen. xxxvii. 25); this samesubstance was also among the presents which Jacobsent to Joseph in Egypt (see Gen. xliii. 11). It isprobable from both these passages that necoth, if aname for some definite substance, was a product ofPalestine, as it is named with other best fruits ofthe land, the lot in the former passage being thegum of the Cistus cretlcus, and not myrrh, asthe A. V. renders it. [Myrrh.] Various opinionshave been formed as to what necoth denotes, forwhich see Celsius, Hicroh. i. 548, and Rosenmiiller,Schol. in Gen. (1. c.); the most probable explana-tion is that which refers the word to the Arabics nakaat (sxjo), i. e. the gum obtained from theTragacanth {Astragalus}, three or four speciesof wh
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