shittah
Americannoun
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shittim,
plural
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shittahs
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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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
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
Mr. Carlile: Is it not actually the case, that God is represented in the text as dwelling in a box of shittim wood in the temple?
From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell
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
The ties appear to have been of the tamarisk or shittim wood, of which the ark was constructed—a sacred tree in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely found in the valley of the Nile.
From Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Calmet, Parkhurst, Gesenius, Clarke, Shaw, and all the best authorities, concur in saying that the otzi shittim, or shittim wood of Exodus, was the common acacia or mimosa nilotica of Linnæus.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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