2 Sam 5:23

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enquired.

2Sam 5:19

fetch.

Josh 8:2; Josh 8:7; 1Chr 14:14; Matt 9:29; Matt 9:30; Matt 8:23-25; John 9:6; John 9:7

the mulberry trees.

The word {becha�,} rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, [apion,] pear-trees, as the LXX. also render in 1 Ch 14:14, 15; and so the Vulgate in both places has {pyrorum.}

The Rabbins, however, believe {bacha} signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call {baca,} from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from {bachah} to distil, as tears.

Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste.

M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of {b�a,} with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entire: its berries are poisonous to the sheep.