opobalsamum

The balm tree, which produced the opobalsamum, a great object of trade, was probably introduced from Arabia in the time of Solomon.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

Of so-called balsams, entirely destitute of cinnamic and benzoic constituents, the following are found in commerce: -- _Mecca balsam_ or _Balm of Gilead_, from _Commiphora opobalsamum_, a tree growing in Arabia and

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Balsamodendron opobalsamum, Kunth., which is extant in tropical regions of east Africa and Arabia and yields the "balm of Mecca"; and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The tree yielding this medicinal oil was probably the Balsamodendron opobalsamum of botanists, and the Amyris opobalsamum of Linnaeus.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

It may represent the gum of the Pistacia lentiscus, or more probably that of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, allied to the balm of Gilead, which abounded in Gilead east of the

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

This is a name to which it is still entitled; but the groves of opobalsamum, or balm of Moses, have long disappeared; nor is the neighbourhood any longer adorned with those singular flowers known among the Crusaders by the familiar appellation of Jericho roses.

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814

The balm-tree, which produced the opobalsamum, a great object of trade, was probably introduced from Arabia, in the time of

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

In that place grows the best kind of palm trees, and the opobalsamum.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

The balm-tree, which produced the opobalsamum, a great object of trade, was probably introduced from Arabia, in the time of Solomon.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

That place also feeds bees, and produceth opobalsamum, and cyprinum, and myrobalanum: so that one might not call it amiss, 'a divine country, '"&c.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979