* a table.
  37:10-16  40:22,23  Le 24:6  Nu 3:31  1Ki 7:48  1Ch 28:16 
  2Ch 4:8,19  Eze 40:41,42  Heb 9:2 
 * shittim wood.
   {Shittim} wood is probably the acacia Nilotica.  St. Jerome
   says, that the {shittim} wood grows in the deserts of Arabia,
   and is like white thorn, as to its colour and leaves; but the
   tree is so large as to furnish very long planks.  The wood is
   hard, tough, and extremely beautiful.  It is thought he means
   the black acacia, because that is the most common tree in the
   deserts of Arabia.  It is of the size of a large mulberry
   tree.  The spreading branches and larger limbs are armed with
   thorns, which grow three together.  The bark is rough; and
   the leaves are oblong, standing opposite each other.  The
   flowers, though sometimes white, are generally of a bright
   yellow; and the fruit, which resembles a bean, is contained
   in pods like those of the lupin.  "The acacia," says Dr.
   Shaw, "being by much the largest and most common tree in the
   deserts," (Arabia Petr(9161),) we have some reason to conjecture
   that the {shittim} wood was the wood of the acacia,
   especially as its flowers are of an excellent smell; for the
   {shittah} tree is, in Isa 41:19, joined with the myrtle and
   other fragrant shrubs.  It may be remarked, that of the two
   Hebrew names, {shittim} is masculine, and {shittah} feminine.
   So Mr. Bruce says, "the male is called {saiel;} from it
   proceeds the {gula} Arabic, on incision with an axe."