LOTUS TREES. The correct (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of tse’Ä›lim ( 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.] , dâl , 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.
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