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Juniper

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: J

By: James P. Boyd

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(young producer). Not the evergreen, but the desert broom-shrub (1 Kings 19:4-5⁴But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. ⁵And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. (1 Kings 19:4‑5); Job 30:4⁴Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. (Job 30:4); Psa. 120:4⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (Psalm 120:4)).

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