Pine Tree

PINE TREE

pin tre: (1) `ets shemen, translated the Revised Version (British and American) "wild olive," the King James Version "pine" (Nehemiah 8:15); the Revised Version (British and American) "oil-tree," m "oleaster" (Isaiah 41:19); "olive-wood" (1 Kings 6:23, 31-33). See OIL TREE. (2) tidhhar (Isaiah 41:19, margin "plane"; Isaiah 60:13); peuke, "fir." Lagarde, from similarity of tidhhar to the Syriac deddar, usually the "elm," considers this the best translation. Symmachus also translated tidhhar (Isaiah 41:19) by ptelea, the "elm." The elm, Ulmus campestris, is rare in Palestine and the Lebanon, though it is found today N. of Aleppo. Post (HDB, III, 592-93) considers that

(1) should be translated as "pine," which he describes as a "fat wood tree"; it is perhaps as probably a correct translation for

(2), but great uncertainty remains.

Two species of pine are plentiful in the Lebanon and flourish in most parts of Palestine when given a chance. These are the stone pine, Pinus pinea, and the Aleppo pine, P. halepensis; all the highlands looking toward the sea are suited to their growth.

E. W. G. Masterman

Pine Tree

1. Heb. tidhar . (Isaiah 41:19; 60:13) What tree is intended is not certain: but the rendering "pine," seems least probable of any.
2. Shemen , (Nehemiah 8:16) is probably the wild olive.

8410. tidhar -- (name of a tree) probably elm
... blow. Apparently from dahar; enduring; a species of hard-wood or lasting tree (perhaps
oak) -- pine (tree). see HEBREW dahar. << 8409, 8410. tidhar. 8411 >>. ...
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6086. ets -- tree, trees, wood
... atsah; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks) -- + carpenter, gallows,
helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood. ...
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8411. tedira -- continuance
... pine tree. (Aramaic) from duwr in the original sense of enduring; permanence, ie
(adverb) constantly -- continually. see HEBREW duwr. << 8410, 8411. ...
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