Lotus Trees
Lotus Trees
LOTUS TREES.The correct (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of tselim (Job 40:21 f., AV [Note: Authorized Version.] shady trees), the haunt of Behemoth (i.e. the hippopotamus). The tree is probably = the Arab [Note: Arabic.] , dl, the dom-tree, and must not he confused with the Egyptian water-lilies. It is a prickly shrub found in N. Africa and S. Europe.
W. Ewing.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Lotus Trees
lotus (, ce’elm; the King James Version shady trees): The trees under which behemoth (the hippopotams) rests; He lieth under the lotus-trees, The lotus-trees cover him with their shade (Job 40:21, Job 40:22). The Arabic equivalent is the dom tree, Zizyphus lotus, a species of jujube tree (Natural Order Rhamneae); it has many spines and small globular fruit a little bigger than a pea. It is common in the Jordan valley. This plant has nothing to do with the Egyptian lotus. See LILY.