. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . bstance only in Cant. i. 14, iv. 13 :the margin in both passages has cypress, imitat-ing kupros in the LXX. and Cyprus in the Vulgatein form but not in signification. Carnphire, or, asit is now generally written, camphor, is the productof a tree largely cultivated in the island of Formosa,the Carnphora officinarvm, allied to the laurel. Fromthe expression cluster of cdpher in the vineyardsof En-gedi, in Cant. i. 14, the Chaldee version readsbunches of grapes. The substance really denotedby the Hebrew cdpher is the Lawsonia alba of bota-nists, the hen
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . bstance only in Cant. i. 14, iv. 13 :the margin in both passages has cypress, imitat-ing kupros in the LXX. and Cyprus in the Vulgatein form but not in signification. Carnphire, or, asit is now generally written, camphor, is the productof a tree largely cultivated in the island of Formosa,the Carnphora officinarvm, allied to the laurel. Fromthe expression cluster of cdpher in the vineyardsof En-gedi, in Cant. i. 14, the Chaldee version readsbunches of grapes. The substance really denotedby the Hebrew cdpher is the Lawsonia alba of bota-nists, the henna of Arabian naturalists. The in-habitants of Nubia call the henna plant , speaking of this plant, says the leavesare pulverized and made into a paste with water;the Egyptians bind this paste on the nails of their CAN CAN 139 hands and feet, and keep it on all night: this givesthem a deep yellow, which is greatly admired byEastern nations. The color lasts for three or fourweeks before there is occasion to renew it. The. Zavovmia alba. custom is so ancient in Egypt that I have seen thenails of the mummies dyed in this manner. Notonly the nails, but the hair, beard, &c, were alsodyed with henna. The beard dyed with henna isafterward made black by the application of says the women are fond of decorating them-selves with the flowers of the henna plant; but theytake them in their hand and perfume their bosomswith them. Compare with this Cant. i. 13.—TheLawsonia alba when young is without thorns, andwhen older is spinous, whence Linneeuss names,Lawsonia inermis and Lawsonia spinosa ; he re-garding his specimens as two distinct species. Thehenna plant grows in Egypt, Syria, Arabia, and The flowers are white, and grow in clusters,and are very fragrant. The whole shrub is fromfour to six feet high. Cana (L. fr. Heb. kdndh [Eobinson, N. T. Lex.]= place of reeds, Ges.) of Gali-lee, once Cana inGali-lce, a village or town not far from Capernau
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