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Chestnut Tree
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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('armon ). Genesis 30:37, from which Jacob pilled rods to set before the flock. Ezekiel 31:7-8, to which the Assyrian empire is compared in beauty and strength. A tree, stately and wide spreading and growing near water, must be meant. The eastern plane tree (not ours, which is a maple, Acer pseudoplatanus) fulfills the conditions; its root, 'aaram "to be naked," "to strip off the bark," corresponds; for it yearly sheds its bark. The groves of the Academy at Athens, where Plato and Aristotle taught, were of eastern plane.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chestnut Tree'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chestnut-tree.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Chestnut Tree'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/c/chestnut-tree.html. 1949.
