. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ; , 11; John xi., 38.] Cedar. The Hebrew word erez, invariablyrendered cedar in our English Bible, standsfor that tree in most of the passages wherethe word occurs; but that it is used in awider sense to denote other trees of the nat-ural order of cone-bearing plants is clear,from some Scriptural passages where it oc-curs. For instance, the use of cedar for puri-fication was first enjoined in the wilderness,wh
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ; , 11; John xi., 38.] Cedar. The Hebrew word erez, invariablyrendered cedar in our English Bible, standsfor that tree in most of the passages wherethe word occurs; but that it is used in awider sense to denote other trees of the nat-ural order of cone-bearing plants is clear,from some Scriptural passages where it oc-curs. For instance, the use of cedar for puri-fication was first enjoined in the wilderness,where the cedar of Lebanon does not has been suggested that some species ofjuniper might be intended—the savin, or thePhoenician juniper—which is abundant in thedesert. Its wood is aromatic, and was there-fore suitable for purifying. In Ezek. xxvii.,5, erez perhaps denotes some fir ; in all prob-ability the Pinus halepensis, a species of pinewhich grows in Lebanon, and is better fittedthan the wood of the cedar of Lebanon forfurnishing ship-masts. It is further worthnotice that, though Solomon asked Hiramgenerally for ^cnbirs, Hiram understood1 Isa. ii., 19, Cedar of Lebanon. the request to include firs; and that whilethe word cedar is thought sufficient in oneplace to describe the timber wanted, we findthe more detailed account below specifyingalso fir-trees and It is there-fore very likely that varieties of pine andyew may be included under the general termerez; though there can be no doubt that bythis name is more especially denoted the ce-dar of Lebanon, as being the firmest andgrandest of the conifers. The great durability of the cedar made itfit for beams, boards, pillars, and ceilings,and its fragrance fitted it for was anciently very abundant in Pales-tine, and its wood was used by the early He-brew kings, by the Jews of later times, and,as we learn from secular histories, for manystructures in various parts of the Th
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