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Identifier: biblehandbookint00angu_1 (find matches)
Title: The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Angus, Joseph, 1816-1902 Hoyt, F. S. (Francis Southack), 1822-1912 Madden, Frederic W. (Frederic William)
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Fagan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Malluach. Mandrakes, Gen. xxx. 14, 16: Cant. vii. 13, Atropa Mandragora, aplant like lettuce in size and shape, but of dark green leaves. Thefruit is of the size of a small apple, and ripens in wheat-harvest(May). It is noted for its exhilarating and genial virtues. Melon, Numb. xi. 5. The gourd tribe, to which cucumbers and melonsbelong, are great favorites in the East, and abound in Egypt andIndia. There are different kinds,—the Egyptian (Cucumis Chate),the common water-melon, etc., all of which are probably includedin the Scripture name. Heb. Abattichim. Millet, Eze. iv. 9, the panicum miliaceum of botanists, a small grain,sometimes cultivated in England for feeding poultry, and grownthroughout the East. It is used for food in Persia and in India.Heb. Dochan. Mulberry, in the New Testament Sycamine-tree, Luke xvii. 6, (verydifferent from the Sycamore, which is a kind of fig), is the mul-berry of Europe, very common in Palestine. The word translated CINNAMON OF CEYLON. (Page 261.)
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BOTANY OF SCRIPTURE. 265 mulbeny in 2 Sam. v. 23, 24: 1 Chr. xiv. 14, 15, possibly meanspoplar. The rustling of its leaves answers the description givenin these passages. The same word occurs in Psa. lxxxiv. 6, andis there regarded as a proper name (Baca), but most of the ver-sions translate it weeping: Valley of Baca equalling vale oftears. (It is uncertain what tree is intended.)Mustard (ihxzri) is either a species of the plant known in Englandunder this name, which has one of the smallest seeds, and is itselfamong the tallest of herbaceous plants, or the Salvadora Persica,a shrub or tree, whose seeds are used for the same purpose as mus-tard (Royle, Irby).Myrrh is the representative of two words in Hebrew, of which the first(^73, crjuvpvct.) is properly translated, Exod. xxx. 23: Psa.xlv. 8, etc.:Mark xv. 23, 36. It is a gum exuded by the BalsamodendronMyrrha, and other plants. It is highly aromatic and medicinal,and moderately stimulating. The Greeks used it to drug theirwine. The

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