Gen. 30:37

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Jacob.

Gen 31:9-13

green poplar.

{Livneh} is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from {lavan} to be white.

hasel.

Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that {luz} is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.

chestnut tree.

The Heb.

word {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.

Eze 31:8