Heb. 'arar, ( Jeremiah 17:6 ; 48:6 ), a species of juniper called by the Arabs by the same name ('arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. "Its gloomy, stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed close to its gnarled stem, and cropped close by the wild goats, as it clings to the rocks about Petra, gives great force to the contrast suggested by the prophet, between him that trusteth in man, naked and destitute, and the man that trusteth in the Lord, flourishing as a tree planted by the waters" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible).
A shrub or tree.Flee, save your lives, and be like the HEATH in the wilderness. For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. ( Jeremiah 48:6-7 )
( Jeremiah 17:6 ) was some species of juniper, probably the savin, a dwarf, stunted juniper which grows in the most sterile parts of the desert.
HEATH
heth.
See TAMARISK.
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