The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour].

  • John Hutton Balfour
Date:
1885
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Credit: The plants of the Bible / [John Hutton Balfour]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PLANTS OF THE BIBLE. > ALMOND-TREE. (Amygdalus communis, Linn.; Prunus amygdalus, Stokes.) “The almond tree shall flourish.”—Eccles. xii. 5. ]HE almoncl-tree is the Amygclalus communis of botanists. It is referred to in Scripture under the Hebrew name of shalced, apparently derived from the word shakad, meaning haste or waking early, with reference to its early blossoming. The Hebrew word luz (from the Arabic louz), which occurs in Genesis xxx. 37, and which has been translated “hazel,” is considered to be another name for the almond. Luz is supposed to refer to the tree, and shaked to the fruit of the almond. Rosenmuller thinks that the former name designates the wild tree, and the latter the cultivated one. The tree belongs to the natural o order Rosaceae, the Rose family. It is included under the section (sub-order) Amygdalae or Drupiferae of that family,—distinguished by the nature of the fruit, which
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