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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

In Scripture, a sort of precious wood of which the tables, altars and

the shittah
Acacia seyal

shittah ‎(plural shittim)

A tree said in the Bible to have furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been the red acacia, Acacia seyal, now Vachella seyal.
The wood of this tree.

a type of tree and its wood