Saltwort

Salt-Wort

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Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible

Saltwort

Saltwort. Family of bushy shrubs of which numerous species can be found along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.See Plants (Mallow).

Tyndale Bible Dictionary

Saltwort

SALTWORT* Family of bushy shrubs, of which numerous species can be found along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. See Plants (Mallow).

Harper’s Bible Dictionary

Saltwort

Saltwortsaltwort, a plant of the genus Salsola. In biblical terminology it was formerly translated as ‘mallow’ (for instance, in Job 30:4). It represents poor food sought in desperation.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SALT-WORT

SALT-WORT<solt’-wurt> ([מַלּוּחַ‎, malluach], a word connected with melach, “salt,” translated [ἅλιμος, halimos]; the King James Version, mallows): The halimos of the Greeks is the sea orache, Atriplex halimus, a silvery whitish shrub which flourishes upon the shores of the Dead Sea alongside the

The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia, Volumes 1–5

Salt-Wort

SALT-WORT, sôlt′wûrt (מַלּוּחַ‎, mallū^aḥ, a word connected with melaḥ, “salt,” tr^d in LXX ἅλιμος, hálimos; AV mallows): The halimos of the Greeks is the sea orache, A triplex halimos, a silvery whitish shrub which flourishes upon the shores of the Dead Sea alongside the rutm (see Juniper). Its leaves

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