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Topic:
Cypress
With respect to the word "Cypress…"
(Heb. tirzah, "hardness"), mentioned only in Isa. 44:14 (R.V.,
"holm tree"). The oldest Latin version translates this word by
ilex, i.e., the evergreen oak, which may possibly have been the tree
intended; but there is great probability that our Authorized Version is
correct in rendering it "cypress." This tree grows abundantly
on the mountains of Hermon. Its wood is hard and fragrant, and very
durable. Its foliage is dark and gloomy. It is an evergreen (Cupressus
sempervirens). "Throughout the East it is used as a funereal tree;
and its dark, tall, waving plumes render it peculiarly appropriate among
the tombs."
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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