Lexicon shittah: acacia (a tree and a wood) Original Word: שִׁטִּיםPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: shittah Phonetic Spelling: (shit-taw') Short Definition: acacia NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionacacia (a tree and a wood) NASB Translationacacia (28).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שִׁטָּה27 noun feminine acacia, tree and wood (= שִׁנְטָה*, Arabic  , probably loan-word from Egyptian šndt, šond®t, Thes 1452 Erman ZMG xlvi (1892), 120); — growing in dry places; especially acacia (mimosa) Nilotica; compare Rob BR ii. 20, or a. seyyâl Post Flora 298 f. Hast. DB SHITTAH-TREE Tristr NHB 390 ff.; — ׳שׁ singular Isaiah 41:19 (to grow in desert); usually plural, עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים shi‰‰îm (wood), material of ark, altars, staves, etc., in tabernacle, Deuteronomy 10:3; Exodus 25:5,10,13 19t. Exodus 25-38 (P); עֲצֵי omitted, ׳עַמּוּדֵי שׁ pillars of shi‰‰îm (wood), Exodus 26:32,37; Exodus 36:36 (P). Strong's shittah, shittim Feminine of a derivative (only in the plural shittiym {shit-teem'}; meaning the sticks of wood) from the same as shotet; the acacia (from its scourging thorns) -- shittah, shittim. See also Beyth hash-Shittah. see HEBREW shotet see HEBREW Beyth hash-Shittah |
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