Shittah Tree
See Acacia
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Shittah-tree
(Isa. 41:19; R.V., “acacia tree”). Shittah wood was employed in making the various parts of the tabernacle in the wilderness, and must therefore have been indigenous in the desert in which the Israelites wandered. It was the acacia or mimosa (Acacia Nilotica and A. seyal). “The wild acacia (Mimosa Nilotica), under the name of _sunt_, everywhere represents the seneh, or senna, of the burning bush. A slightly different form of the tree, equally common under the name of _seyal_, is the ancient ‘shittah,’ or, as more usually expressed in the plural form, the ‘shittim,’ of which the tabernacle was made.” Stanley’s Sinai, etc. (Ex. 25:10, 13, 23, 28).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Shittah Tree
SHITTAH TREE (shitth, Isa 41:19 RV [Note: Revised Version.] acacia tree; shittim wood [ts-shttm] Exo 25:5; Exo 25:10; Exo 25:13; Exo 26:15; Exo 26:26; Exo 27:1; Exo 27:6, Deu 10:3, RV [Note: Revised Version.] acacia wood).shitth was originally shinth, and is equivalent to Arab. [Note: Arabic.] sunt, which is the Acacia nilotica; but the word no doubt included other desert acacias. The seyt of the Arabs, which includes the gum-arabic tree (A. seyat), and A. tortilis would both furnish suitable wood. Both these trees are plentiful around the Dead Sea, particularly at Ain Jidy.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Shittah Tree
See SHITTIM WOOD.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Shittah Tree
Shit’tah Tree. (Hebrew, shittah, the thorny). Shittah Tree or Shittim is, without doubt, correctly referred to some species of Acacia, of which three or four kinds occur in the Bible lands. The woof of this tree — perhaps the Acacia seyal is more definitely signified — was extensively employed in the construction of the Tabernacle. See Exodus 25, 26, 36, 37, 38. (This tree is sometimes three or four feet in diameter (Tristram). The wood is close-grained and hard, of a fine orange-brown color, and admirably adapted to cabinet work. — Editor).
The Acacia seyal is very common in some parts of the peninsula of Sinai. It yields the well-known substance called gum arabic, which is obtained by incisions in the bark, but it is impossible to say whether the ancient Jews were acquainted with its use. From the tangled thicket into which the stem of this tree expands, Stanley well remarks that hence is to be traced the use of the plural form of the Hebrew noun, shittim, the singular number occurring once only in the Bible.
This acacia must not be confounded with the tree, (Robinia pseudo-acacia), popularly known by this name in England, which is a North American plant, and belongs to a different genus and suborder. The true acacias belong to the order Leguminosae, sub-order Mimoseae. See Shittim.