This name occurs in RV (only) three times; Ge 21:33 AV 'grove,' mg. 'tree'; 1Sa 22:6 AV 'tree,' mg. 'grove'; 1Sa 31:13 AV 'tree.' The RV rendering is based upon an identification of the Heb. '
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
"For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.
"Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.
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