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Palm-tree

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: P

By: James P. Boyd

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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(hand-leaved). The date-palm. Once grew luxuriantly in Palestine. Evergreen and stately, often rising to 100 feet (Ex. 15:27²⁷And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. (Exodus 15:27); Deut. 34:3³And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. (Deuteronomy 34:3); Judg. 1:16¹⁶And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. (Judges 1:16); 1 Kings 6:32³²The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. (1 Kings 6:32); Song of Sol. 7:7⁷This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. (Song of Solomon 7:7)).

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