Caperberry
Caperberry
Caperberry. A plant with large white, berry-producing flowers, which grows in clefts of rocks and on walls. Only the NEB and NASB refer to the caper. Other versions translate the Hebrew word as “desire” ( Ecc 12:5). Also see Hyssop.
Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible
Caperberry
kaper-ber-i (, ‘abhyonah; , kapparis; Ecc 12:5 the Revised Version, margin): The translation the caperberry shall fail (the Revised Version (British and American) burst) instead of desire shall fail (the King James Version) has the support of the Septuagint and of some Talmudic writers (see G. F. Moore, JBL, X, 55-64), but it is doubtful.
The caperberry is the fruit of the thorny caper, Capparis spinosa (Natural Order Capparidaceae), a common Palestine plant with pretty white flowers and brightly colored stamens. Largely on account of its habit of growing out of crevasses in old walls it has been identified by some with the HYSSOP (which see). The familiar capers of commerce are the young buds, but the berries were the parts most used in ancient times; their repute as excitants of sexual desire is ancient and widespread. Various parts of this plant are still used for medical purposes by the modern peasants of Palestine.