Definition of Shittim

1. Noun. Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.


Definition of Shittim

1. n. The wood of the shittah tree.

Definition of Shittim

1. Noun. (plural of shittah) ¹

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Definition of Shittim

1. the wood of the shittah [n -S]

Medical Definition of Shittim

1. The wood of the shittah tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Shittim

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

1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"41:19. nt?c> shit-täh', f. badgers' skins, and shittim wood, make an ark (of) shittim wood: thou shalt make staves (of) shittim wood, also make a table (of) ..."

2. Sinai and Palestine: In Connection with Their History by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1877)
"En-gedi. II. Plain—Terraces of the Jordan; 1. Plain of Abel-shittim—Encampment of the Israelites—Views from ..."

3. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1886)
"View over the Plain of Abel-shittim.—Valleys and Streams and principal Hills around ... Abel-shittim.—Completion of Deuteronomy and the l-«st Address of the ..."

4. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"13 And thou shalt make staves o/2 shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the «ides of the ark, ..."

5. A Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible by James Covel (1843)
"shittim, a valley in Moab, on the borders of Palestine, Joel iii, ... we have some reason to conjecture that the shittim wood was the wood of the acacia ..."

6. Sermons by Timothy Dwight (1828)
"... by the Jordan, near Jericho ;* but the prophet Micah declares, that this consultation was holden from shittim, the place of their last encampment, ..."

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