. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Balsam of Gilead (Amyris Oileademia^. 8, 28; 1 K. x. 2, 10 twice, 25; 2 K. xx. 13; 1 29, 30; 2 Chr. ix. 1, 9 twice, 24, xvi. 14 [A. odors], xxxii. 27; Esth. ii. 12 [ sweetodors]; Cant. iv. 10, 14, 16, v. 13, vi. 2, viii. 14;. Tr {Astracottis Tr&gacanthd), Is. iii. 24 [A. V. smell], xxxix. 2 ; Ez. xxvii. 22),except perhaps Cant. v. 13, vi. 2, the word refersmore generally to sweet aromatic odors, the princi- pal of which was that of the balsam, or balm ofGilead ; the tree which yields this substance is nowgenerally admitt
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Balsam of Gilead (Amyris Oileademia^. 8, 28; 1 K. x. 2, 10 twice, 25; 2 K. xx. 13; 1 29, 30; 2 Chr. ix. 1, 9 twice, 24, xvi. 14 [A. odors], xxxii. 27; Esth. ii. 12 [ sweetodors]; Cant. iv. 10, 14, 16, v. 13, vi. 2, viii. 14;. Tr {Astracottis Tr&gacanthd), Is. iii. 24 [A. V. smell], xxxix. 2 ; Ez. xxvii. 22),except perhaps Cant. v. 13, vi. 2, the word refersmore generally to sweet aromatic odors, the princi- pal of which was that of the balsam, or balm ofGilead ; the tree which yields this substance is nowgenerally admitted to be the Amyris (Balsamoden-dron) Opobalsamum, or Amyris (Balsamodendron)Gileadensis,1 allied to that which yields myrrh. Thebalm of Gilead tree grows in some parts of Arabiaand Africa, and is seldom more than fifteen feethigh, with straggling branches and scanty balsam is chiefly obtained from incisions in thebark, but the substance is procured also from thegreen and ripe berries. (Oil-tree.)—2. Heb. necholh(Gen. xxxvii. 25 [spicery ], xliii. 11 [spices]);most probably = the Arabic nakaat, i. e. the gumobtained from the Tragacanth {Astragalus), severalspecies of which genus occur in Palestine. The gumis a natural exudation from the trunk and branchesof the p
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