The acacia, which, in Scripture, is always called 'shittah' and in the plural 'shittim,' was esteemed a sacred wood among the Hebrews. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
It is the mimosa nilotica of Linnæus, the shittah of the Hebrew writers, and grows abundantly in Palestine. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Then they ran into a meteoroid swarm (she supposed) which rebounded off their shieldfields and sent them careening off trajectory; and the man shook his fist, commenced on a mighty oath, glimpsed her and turned it into a Biblical “Damask rose and shittah tree!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Thus in practice many on lenient in the spirit of Reb Moshe's shittah. From Wordnik.com. [Your Moral Leader] Reference
Beth-shittah in Zereroth, and to the border of Abel-meholah, to Tabbath. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Bible: Webster's Bible] Reference
Beth-shittah towards Zererah, to the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Bible: Darby Translation] Reference
(Isa 32: 15; 55: 13). shittah -- rather, the "acacia," or Egyptian thorn, from which the gum. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel - meholah, unto Tabbath. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
'shittah,' or, as more usually expressed in the plural form, the. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
19I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Gyapong] Reference
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
6) Despite the fact that the wood of this particular tre was used to make the ark of the Tabernacle, make no reference whatsoever to the shittah tree. From Wordnik.com. [PeterDavid.net] Reference
Associations with bodily functions and scatology (a word sometimes confused with eschatology, thus rendering the latter, in those cases, quasi malediction) have produced such examples as: crapulence/crapulous, shittah, piscine, pisiform, piscatology, epistemology, fasces, infarct/infarction, and mensuration. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference
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