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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50057" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50057" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> [[Box-Tree]] </strong> ( <em> teashshûr </em> , Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 60:13 , Ezekiel 27:6 ). Whether the <em> teashshûr </em> was the box-tree ( <em> Buxus longifolia </em> ) or the <em> sherbin </em> , mod. Arab. [Note: Arabic.] for the cypress ( <em> Cupressus sempervirens </em> ), as RV [Note: Revised Version.] adopts, or, as others propose, a kind of juniper, is quite unsettled. So good an authority as Post rejects the first as improbable. </p> <p> | <p> <strong> [[Box-Tree]] </strong> ( <em> teashshûr </em> , Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 60:13 , Ezekiel 27:6 ). Whether the <em> teashshûr </em> was the box-tree ( <em> Buxus longifolia </em> ) or the <em> sherbin </em> , mod. Arab. [Note: Arabic.] for the cypress ( <em> Cupressus sempervirens </em> ), as RV [Note: Revised Version.] adopts, or, as others propose, a kind of juniper, is quite unsettled. So good an authority as Post rejects the first as improbable. </p> <p> E. W. G. Masterman. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15652" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15652" /> == | ||
