Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several usually small trees of the genus Pistacia of the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, especially P. terebinthus, formerly an important source of tanning material and turpentine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The turpentine-tree, Pistacia Terebinthus, native in the lands about the Mediterranean, the source of Chian turpentine.
- noun Turpentine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The turpentine tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Mediterranean tree , Pistacia palaestina or Pistacia terebinthus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hos. 4: 13; rendered "terebinth" in the Revised Version.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Next to the "terebinth" was the tomb of the favorite horse of Lucius
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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"terebinth" or "large tree" generally, would seem to indicate that originally El or Elath was marked by a large grove of perhaps terebinths.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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For example, one of the Canaanite epithets of Asherah, elat, “goddess,” is etymologically identical to the Hebrew word for the terebinth tree (ela).
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Another word for “terebinth” (alla) and two words for “oak” (elon and allon) are also closely related.
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Five or six stand in the shade of a terebinth, watching a Phoenician juggle bright purple balls.
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Suddenly he finds himself stunned by a blow while his head is caught in the fork of the low hanging branches of a terebinth tree.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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A slave followed with a terebinth table and crystal dice, and I noted one piece of luxury that was superlative; for instead of black and white pieces, he used gold and silver coins.
Satyricon 2007
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Much of the wealth that came out of Arabia and India was related to this resin, taken from the bark of the terebinth tree.
101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007
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Much of the wealth that came out of Arabia and India was related to this resin, taken from the bark of the terebinth tree.
101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word terebinth
"The vegetation on the trail—terebinth and spiny hawthorn—was dry and gnarled."
"The Unconsoled" by George Packer, p 61 of the September 27, 2010 edition of The New Yokrer
October 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word terebinth
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