Definition of Terebinths

1. Noun. (plural of terebinth) ¹

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Definition of Terebinths

1. terebinth [n] - See also: terebinth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terebinths

terebate
terebates
terebene
terebenes
terebenthene
terebic
terebic acid
terebilenic
terebilenic acid
terebinth
terebinthic
terebinthina
terebinthinate
terebinthine
terebinthinism
terebinths (current term)
terebra
terebrae
terebrant
terebrantia
terebras
terebrating
terebration
terebrations
terebratula
terebratulas
terebratulid
terebratulids
terebratuliform
teredine

Literary usage of Terebinths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"Oracular oaks or terebinths (oaks or terebinths of Moreh) are mentioned also in this neighbourhood by the author of Deuteronomy (xi. 30). ..."

2. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"Canon Tristram tells us that " many terebinths remain to this day objects of veneration in ... 4 Compare the number of the references to oaks and terebinths ..."

3. Another Archæologia Biblica, a manual of Biblical antiquities by Johann Jahn (1836)
"terebinths are called in Heb. 7V?N, D^N, nbs, etc., which words are sometimes ... The terebinths are large trees, loaded with branches and foliage, ..."

4. Palestine, Historical and Descriptive; Or, The Home of God's People by William Leonard Gage (1883)
"Vegetation of Palestine — Trees — Olives — Cedars of Lebanon—Oaks — terebinths—Abraham's Oak—Sacred Trees—Oak of Moreh—Oak of Mamre— ..."

5. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1886)
"Exuberant Pasture.—Fountains and Flocks.—Small Roman Temple.—Great terebinths.—Large Stone in the Trunk of a Tree. ..."

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