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Genesis 30:37

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green poplar: Livneh: is the white poplar, so called from the whiteness of its leaves, bark, and wood, from lavan: to be white., hasel:, Jerome, Hiller, Celsius, Dr. Shaw, Bochart, and other learned men, say, that luz: is not the "hazel" but the almond-tree, as the word denotes both in Arabic and Syriac.

chestnut tree: The Heb. word ârmon:, signifies "the plane-tree," so called from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk naked, as its root âram:, signifies. Ezekiel 31:8

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