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shittim wood
shittim wood in the Bible, wood of the shittah tree, probably an acacia , from which the Ark of the Covenant and furniture of the Tabernacle were made. The Revised Version of the Bible calls it acacia wood. It seems to have been held in high esteem. The name shittim wood is also sometimes applied to two plants that are not acacias, the buckthorn and the false buckthorn.
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The game of the name
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Sugartit, Kentucky; Pee Pee, Ohio; Shittim Gulch, Washington; Dunmovin, California...Abate is wrong to include, as he does, Shittim Gulch under the heading 'Indecorous...biblical origin ('And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom...
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News in brief
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/28/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...15, of Jerusalem, from Lake Kinneret, not far from the Shittim beach on the eastern shore where she went missing on Sunday...drops to depths of three to six meters. He noted that the Shittim beach is not supervised and there are signs warning that bathing...
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Arava Ashram
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/4/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...desert came into existence last autumn in what used to be the Shittim Nahal army outpost in the Arava. Rafeek (Tamir) Kimchi...Last September, Kimchi and a group of friends took over Shittim - half-a- dozen prefabricated houses, storerooms, greenhouses...
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Meetings with Prester John.(Poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...with human need, like those healing waters that close every wound. It's Shangri-La with salamanders swimming in fire and shittim-wood palaces with jeweled roofs. Father read me the Letter often. Finally the bulb switched on: he wants me to go there...
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Monotheistic violence. (Violence, nonviolence, peace).
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab. They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods...
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Recreation Roundup: May 21
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 5/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...with a coach. Registration is available online at www.quickstix.com/summerstix.html. For information, contact Sue Shittim, 410-757-9026 or Don Restly, 301-805-8196. SEVERNA PARK SOCCER: The Severna Park Flame U14 WAGS Division 2 soccer...
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Book Bytes
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/13/1999; ; 632 words
; ...years as a furniture restorer, followed the precise building instructions given in Exodus 25 and elsewhere. Unable to obtain shittim wood, he used acacia as a close substitute. After specially treating the wood, he applied gold leaf inside and out. The...
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To Protect the Torah
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 2/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...You [second person singular] shall make. The one glaring exception is the Holy Ark, And they shall make an ark out of shittim wood... , third person plural referring to the entire nation of Israel (Exodus 25:10). Why the distinction? Secondly...
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Das Buch Josua: Forschungsgeschichte und Problemfelder
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...early (pp. 243 and 321). Yet such mistakes are rare and are unavoidable when so much material is covered. The spelling of Shittim (pp. 153-59) is a hilarious example of how many different ways you can spell a name. The heart of N.'s survey is clearly...
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KEN KESEY'S TRUE LEGACY IS `SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION'.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 11/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...blackberry, the branches crashing into creek, into streams. Finally, in the foothills, through tamarack and sugar pine, shittim bark and silver spruce - and the green and blue mosaic of Douglas fir - the actual river falls 500 feet ... and look: opens...
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Abel-shittim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abel-shittim see Shittim .
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Shittim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Shittim , in the Bible, last place in which the Israelites encamped before reaching the Holy Land. It was E of Jericho. An alternate form is Abel-shittim. The valley of Shittim of the Book of Joel is not the same place.
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shittim wood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
shittim wood in the Bible, wood of the shittah tree, probably an acacia , from...calls it acacia wood. It seems to have been held in high esteem. The name shittim wood is also sometimes applied to two plants that are not acacias, the...
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Numbers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...as leaders; the rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; the curse of Balaam turned into a blessing; and the apostasy at Shittim in which Phinehas played an exemplary role. Bibliography: See G. W. Coats, Rebellion in the Wilderness (1968); P...
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Baal-peor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baal-peor , local divinity (the Baal) of Peor. According to the Book of Numbers, the Hebrews stayed at Shittim during the wilderness wanderings. While there, Hebrew men had sexual relationships with the local Moabite women. This led to...
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