terebinth
pronunciation
How to pronounce terebinth in British English:
UK ['terəbɪnθ]
How to pronounce terebinth in American English:
US ['terəˌbɪnθ]
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- Noun:
- a Mediterranean tree yielding Chian turpentine
Word Origin
- terebinth (n.)
- Mediterranean tree, a member of the sumac family, late 14c., from Old French therebint (13c.), from Latin terebinthus (Pliny), from Greek terebinthos, earlier terminthos, probably from a non-Indo-European language (Klein suggests Creto-Minoic). The tree is the source of Chian turpentine. Related: Terebinthine; terebinthaceous.
Example
- 1. I have widened my branches as a terebinth .
- 2. Then all the lords of shechem and all the house of millo gathered , and they went and made abimelech king at the terebinth of the pillar that was in shechem .
- 3. The battlefield of legend is now quiet and abounds with wheat , barley , almond trees , and grapevines , not to mention a few of the indigenous terebinth ( elah in hebrew ) trees from which the valley derives its name .
- 4. And joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of god , and he took a great stone and erected it there under the terebinth that was at the sanctuary of jehovah .
- 5. All the valiant men rose up and took the body of saul and the bodies of his sons ; and they brought them to jabesh and buried their bones under the terebinth at jabesh , and they fasted seven days .