Teil-Tree

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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [1]

The lime or linden. See Oak .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

is properly the linden-tree, or Tilia Europcaus of botanists. It is mentioned in the A. V., in Isaiah 6:13, "as a teil tree, and as an oak;" but as in the Hebrew the word is אֵלָה , elâ h, usually rendered "oak," by many supposed to be the terebinth, or "turpentine-tree," there is no reason for giving it a different signification in this from what it has in other passages. (See Oak).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [3]

Teil-Tree is the linden-tree, or Tilia Europœus of botanists.

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