. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Abrahams Oak, • Hebron.—From a photograph by J. Graham.—(Ayrc.) is said to be common in Gilead and Bashan. Anotherspecies of oak, besides those named above, is theQuercus infectopia, which yields the gall-nuts ofcommerce, and is common in Galilee and Evergreen Oak of Pa!estine {Quercus pseudo-coccifera). It is rather a small tree in Palestine, and seldomgrows above thirty feet high, though in ancienttimes it might have been a noble tree. Sacrificeswere offered under oaks (Is. i. 29; Hos. iv. 13); ofoak-timber the Tvrians made oars (Ez. xxvi
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Abrahams Oak, • Hebron.—From a photograph by J. Graham.—(Ayrc.) is said to be common in Gilead and Bashan. Anotherspecies of oak, besides those named above, is theQuercus infectopia, which yields the gall-nuts ofcommerce, and is common in Galilee and Evergreen Oak of Pa!estine {Quercus pseudo-coccifera). It is rather a small tree in Palestine, and seldomgrows above thirty feet high, though in ancienttimes it might have been a noble tree. Sacrificeswere offered under oaks (Is. i. 29; Hos. iv. 13); ofoak-timber the Tvrians made oars (Ez. xxvii. 6), andidolaters images (Is. xliv. 14); under the shade of oaks the dead were sometimes interred (Gen. ; see 1 Sam. xxxi. 13). Oath (Heb. dldh, stebff&h ; Gr. horkos, horkomo-sia). I. The principle on which an oath is heldto be binding is incidentally laid down in Heb. , viz. as an ultimate appeal to divine authority toratify an assertion. There the Almighty is repre-sented as promising or denouncing with an oath, i. so in the most positive and solemn manner(compare Gen. xxii. 16, xxiv. V, &c).—II. On thesame principle, that oath has always been held mostbinding which appealed to the highest authority,both as regards individuals and communities, (a.)Thus believer
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