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Ivy
Ivy[Gk kissós]. The only mention of the word in all the sacred writings is in 2 Macc. 6:7 in connection with the oppression of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes. The plant referred to was the Hedera helix, which was sacred to Bacchus (Dionysus), the Greek god of wine and of the culture of the vine (cf.