. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 6 ; 2 30): hence the necessity of constantly watch-ing flocks and herds. From the absence of en-closures, cultivated land of any size might betermed a field. Similar remarks apply to the (= Heb. sddeh, LXX), usually translated field in the N. T. (Mat. vi. 28, 30, xiii. 24 ff., &c).The expressions fruitful field (Is. x. 18, , xxxii. 15, 16), and plentiful field (Is. ; Jer. xlviii. 33), are the A. V. translation ofHeb. carmel — a garden, orchard, park, or well-kept wood, as distinct from a wilderness or a ;
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . 6 ; 2 30): hence the necessity of constantly watch-ing flocks and herds. From the absence of en-closures, cultivated land of any size might betermed a field. Similar remarks apply to the (= Heb. sddeh, LXX), usually translated field in the N. T. (Mat. vi. 28, 30, xiii. 24 ff., &c).The expressions fruitful field (Is. x. 18, , xxxii. 15, 16), and plentiful field (Is. ; Jer. xlviii. 33), are the A. V. translation ofHeb. carmel — a garden, orchard, park, or well-kept wood, as distinct from a wilderness or a ; Fullers Field ; Potters Field. Fig, Fig-tree, both occur as = Heb. teendh, whichsignifies the tree Ficus Carica of Linnaeus, and alsoits fruit. In N. T. the Gr. suke = the fig-tree,and the Gr. plural suka = figs. The fig-tree isvery common in Palestine (Deut. viii. 8). Its fruitis a well-known and highly-esteemed article of the East this is of three kinds ; (1.) the early Jig(Heb. biccurdh, below), ripening about the end of. Fig, Ficut Carica.—(Fbn.) June; (2.) the summer Jig, ripening in August; (3.)the winter Jig, larger and darker than No. 2, hangingand ripening late on the tree, even after the leaveswere shed, and sometimes gathered in the spring (Rbn. N. T. Lex.). The blossoms of the fig-tree arewithin the receptacle or so-called fruit, andnot visible outwardly ; and this fruit begins to de-velop before the leaves. Hence the fig-tree whichhad leaves before the usual time might naturallyhave been expected to have also some figs on it(Mk. xi. 13); but it was not true to its fig-leaves, of which our first parents madethemselves aprons (Gen. ), have been supposedto be leaves of the banyan or Indian fig {Ficus Indica)(so Milton), or the enormous leaves of the banana{Musa parcidisiaca) (so Celsius, Gesenius, &c), butwere probably the large and beautiful leaves of thecommon fig-tree. Mount Olivet was famous for its fig-trees in ancient times, and
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