Shittim
Encyclopedia
Shittim may mean several different things:
Botany
Geography
Botany
- Shittim, the plural of Shittah, which is Hebrew for wood from the acaciaAcaciaAcacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not...
tree, which appears in the Bible
Geography
- Abel-Shittim, later Abila (Peraea)Abila (Peraea)Abila – also, Biblical: Abel-Shittim or Ha-Shittim – was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea; the site is now that of Abil-ez-Zeit, Jordan. Abel-Shittim , is found only in Num...
, a place which appears in the Bible