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Cypress
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Cypress. R. V. holm tree. Isaiah 44:14. The Hebrew word indicates a tree with hard-grained wood, not the cypress, but probably the Syrian juniper which grows wild upon Lebanon, is meant, as the cypress never does in the Holy Land. The latter tree is a tall evergreen, the wood of which is heavy, aromatic, and remarkably durable. Its foliage is dark and gloomy, its form close and pyramidal, and it is usually planted in the cemeteries of the East. Coffins were made of it in the East, and the mummy-cases of Egypt are found at this day of the cypress wood. The timber has been known to suffer no decay by the lapse of 1100 years.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Cypress'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/cypress.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Cypress'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/c/cypress.html. 1893.
