. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ies, apples, pears, strawberries, kc. &c., are all in-cluded under this order. It should be remembered,however, that the seeds, flowers, bark, and leaves,of many plants in the order Rosaceae contain adeadly poison, namely, prussic or hydrocyanic almond-tree is a native of Asia and North ° The general colour of the almond blossom ispink, but the flowers do vary from deep pink tonearly white. IptJ INy. Gesenius makes the verb ^^yto be Hiphll future, from |*N3, to deride, to despise;|*N3* would then be after the Syriac form, instead ofVN3*. But all the ol
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . ies, apples, pears, strawberries, kc. &c., are all in-cluded under this order. It should be remembered,however, that the seeds, flowers, bark, and leaves,of many plants in the order Rosaceae contain adeadly poison, namely, prussic or hydrocyanic almond-tree is a native of Asia and North ° The general colour of the almond blossom ispink, but the flowers do vary from deep pink tonearly white. IptJ INy. Gesenius makes the verb ^^yto be Hiphll future, from |*N3, to deride, to despise;|*N3* would then be after the Syriac form, instead ofVN3*. But all the old versions agree with the ALOES Afi-ica, but it is cultivated in the milder parts ofEurope. In England it is grown simply on ac-count of its beautiful vernal flowers, flir the fruitscarcely ever comes to maturity. The height ofthe tree is about 12 or 14 feet; the flowers arepink, and arranged for the most jiart in pairs ; theleaves are long, ovate, with a serrated margin, andan acute point. The covering of the fruit i^downy. il-tree and blossom ri)hr and succulent, enclosing the hard shell which con-tains the kernel. The bitter almond is only avariety of this species. Ihe English Almond,Spanish Almendra, the Provencal Amandola, theFrench Amande, are all apparently derived fromthe Greek aixvy^aX-q ; Latin Amygdala. It iscurious to observe, in connexion with the almond-bowls of the golden candlestick, that pieces of rock-ci-ystal used in adorning branch-candlesticks are stilldenominated by the lapidaries Almonds. ALOES, LIGN ALOES (D^nN, Ahalhn, HN, AJialoth: r]; C. a\66; Sym. Bvfilana (in Cant. iv. 14) :tahernacida, gutta, aloe: in N. T. a\6rt, aloe).the name of some costly and sweet-smelling woodmentioned in Num. xxiv. 6, where Balaam com-pares the condition of the Israelites to trees oflign-aloes which the Lord hath planted, in 8, All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes,and cassia ; in Prov. vii. 17, I have
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