Reference: Mulberry Tree
Morish
The word baka is supposed to be from a root signifying 'weeping,' and to refer to some tree that distils an odoriferous gum; but what tree is alluded to is unknown. David was to wait for some secret sign from God in the mulberry trees before attacking the enemy. 2Sa 5:23-24; 1Ch 14:14-15; Ps 84:6 margin. The true mulberry is supposed to be the tree called in the A.V. SYCAMINE, q.v.
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Watsons
MULBERRY TREE, ???, 2Sa 5:23-24; 1Ch 14:14-15; Ps 84:7. The LXX, in Chronicles, render the word by ?????, "pear trees;" so Aquila and the Vulgate, both in Samuel and Chronicles, "purorum." Others translate it the "mulberry tree:" More probably it is the large shrub which the Arabs still call "baca;" and which gave name to the valley where it abounded. Of this valley Celsius remarks, that it was "rugged and embarrassed with bushes and stones, which could not be passed through without labour and tears;" referring to Ps 84:7; and the "rough valley," De 21:4; and he quotes from a manuscript of Abu'l Fideli a description of the tree which grew there, and mentions it as bearing a fruit of an acrid taste.