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Reference: Pomegranates

Morish

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This tree and its fruit are often referred to, though it is rather a shrub. It is named among the vines and fig trees as of the products of Palestine. The fruit is as large as an apple. It was represented alternately with bells, at the bottom of the high priest's robe, as a type of fruitfulness, and was copied as an ornament on the columns of Solomon's temple. The temples, or cheeks, of the bride in the Canticles are compared to 'a piece of a pomegranate.' Cant. 4:3; Cant. 6:7. Spiced wine was made of its juice. Cant. 8:2; Ex 39:24-26; Nu 20:5; De 8:8; 1Ki 7:18,42; Jer 52:22-23; Joe 1:12; Hag 2:19. It is the Punica granatum, which both wild and cultivated still grows in Palestine, and is highly valued.

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