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Juniper

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(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)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

This is supposed to refer, not to the juniper (see HEATH), but to the Arabic ratam, the Retama rætam, a “broom” that grows twelve feet high, under which a person could sit for shelter (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)). In Job 30:4⁴Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. (Job 30:4) reference is made to its roots being used for food by the poor. Its roots were also burnt for charcoal, and Psalm 120:4⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (Psalm 120:4) says that sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of juniper were to be applied to a false tongue.

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