* Jacob.
31:9-13
* 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 {armon,} signifies "the plane-tree," so called
from the bark naturally peeling off, and leaving the trunk
naked, as its root {aram,} signifies.
Eze 31:8
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