shittah
Americannoun
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shittim,
plural
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shittahs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of shittah
First recorded in 1605–15, shittah is from the Hebrew word shiṭṭāh
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Acacia seyal is supposed to be the shittah tree of the Bible, which supplied shittim-wood.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
On a hill rising gradually from beyond the harbor stood the royal palace of Antipas, its polished marble gleaming through the tops of palms and the lace-like green of shittah trees.
From The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock
It is the mimosa nilotica of Linnæus, the shittah of the Hebrew writers, and grows abundantly in Palestine.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
Shittim furthermore signifies "follies," hence Israel were to construct the place of penance for their folly in adoring the Golden Calf, out of shittim wood, to atone for this "folly."
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Paul Radin
The acacia, which, in Scripture, is always called shittah182 and in the plural shittim, was esteemed a sacred wood among the Hebrews.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
It is generally supposed to be the same species of wood mentioned as the shittim wood in the Scriptures.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
A. Of shittim wood covered within and without with pure gold, surmounted with a golden crown and two cherubims of gold.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan
Peter Harrison, an annotator on the Pentateuch, observed of Moses' two tables of stone that they were made of shittim wood.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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