How To Use Shittim In A Sentence
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Abel-shittim, where the Israelites pitched their tents immediately after they had passed the river Jordan, in Josephus is called Abila, "distant from
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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It was but a chest of shittimwood, with two slabs of lettered stone in it, -- and what help was in that?
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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According to the ancient biblical account, the sacred Ark—an ornate box made of shittimwood and coated with gold—contained the original Ten Commandments, the tablets that God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai as the ancient Israelites wandered the desert in search of the Promised Land.
THE PROMISED WAR
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And thou shalt make staves of shittimwood, and overlay them with gold.
The Moses Expedition
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It is thought that the shittah and shittim wood of the Bible, of which Moses made the greater part of the tables, altars and planks of the tabernacle, was the same as the black acacia found in the deserts of Arabia and about Mount Sinai and the mountains which border on the Red Sea, and is so hard and solid as to be almost incorruptible.
Among the Trees at Elmridge
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(Heb. shittim) Ex. 25: 5, R.V. probably the Acacia seyal (the gum-arabic tree); called the "shittah" tree (Isa.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply "Shittim" (Num.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The Israelites, according to Numbers 25, were camped at Shittim when the people began "profaning themselves" by having illicit sex with the local Moabites.
Brad Hirschfield: Resisting the Seductions of Religious Zeal
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There would be no repeat of the mistake Moses had allowed when the Israelites first pitched camp at Shittim in Moab.
THE PROMISED WAR
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The acacia, which, in Scripture, is always called 'shittah' and in the plural 'shittim,' was esteemed a sacred wood among the Hebrews.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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The Bible says: And they shall make an ark of shittimwood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
The Moses Expedition
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Also included are the cities of Iyyn and Abel (biblical Abel Shittim) both in Numbers 13: 45-50; Yom haMelach (Numbers 34:3); and Athar (Hebrew Atharim) (Numbers 21:1).
Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen?
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The presence of God turned out to be a twenty-meter-tall signal tower made of shittimwood beams with ladders leading to its various levels, all building up to a bronze furnace and chimney.
THE PROMISED WAR
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Israel abode in Shittim -- a verdant meadow, so called from a grove of acacia trees which lined the eastern side of the Jordan.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The mention of "Shittim" agrees with this: as it was the scene of Israel's sin (Nu 25: 1-5; 2Pe
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The chest of shittimwood was smaller than Deker had imagined: not even two meters long, and barely a meter wide and tall.
THE PROMISED WAR
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Shittim" means "acacias," which grow only in arid regions: implying that even the arid desert shall be fertilized by the blessing from
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The camp was broken up in "Shittim" (the acacia groves), and removed to the eastern bank of the Jordan.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible