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  2. Seven Species - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Species (Hebrew: שִׁבְעַת הַמִינִים, Shiv'at HaMinim) are seven agricultural products—two grains and five fruits—that are listed in the Hebrew Bible as being special products of the Land of Israel. The seven species listed are wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranates, olive (oil), and date (date honey) (Deuteronomy ...

  3. Etrog - Wikipedia

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    The romanization of the Hebrew as etrog from Sephardi Hebrew is widely used. The Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation is esrog or esrig. It has been transliterated as etrog or ethrog in scholarly works. [2] The Hebrew word is thought to derive from the Persian name for the fruit, wādrang, which first appears in the Vendidad.

  4. Four species - Wikipedia

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    The mitzvah of waving the four species derives from the Torah. Leviticus 23:40 states: . And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the L ORD your God for seven days.

  5. Lulav - Wikipedia

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    Lulav (; Hebrew: לוּלָב ‎) is a closed frond of the date palm tree. It is one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other Species are the hadass , aravah , and etrog . When bound together, the lulav, hadass, and aravah are commonly referred to as "the lulav".

  6. Ficus sycomorus - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew Bible, the sycomore is mentioned seven times (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁקְמָה, romanized: shiqmā; Strong's number 8256) and once in the New Testament (Koinē Greek: συκομoραία, romanized: sykomoraia or συκομορέα sykomorea; [15] Strong's number 4809). It was a popular and valuable fruit tree in Jericho and ...

  7. Hyssopus officinalis - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew word אזוב (ezov, esov, or esob) and the Greek word ὕσσωπος probably share a common (but unknown) origin. [4]

  8. Wild edible plants of Israel and Palestine - Wikipedia

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    The fruit is mentioned in the Mishnah (compiled in 189 CE) under the late Hebrew name rīmīn. [243] Preserves can be made from them. Al-Mukaddasi mentions that, in his day, people would prepare a porridge sweetened with the nabk fruit, after being spread out on reed mats to dry and stick together.

  9. Figs in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after they ate the "fruit of the Tree of knowledge", [1] when they realized that they were naked.