| I Kings 5:8
| And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: I have heard all thou hast desired of me; and I will do all thy desire concerning cedar-trees, and fir-trees.
| Fir-trees. Some take these to be another species of cedars, as they say fir is too slender and corruptible; (Martin, etc.) and Solomon had not asked for it, ver. 6.; though he does in 2 Paralipomenon 2:8, where (Haydock) the word is translated archeuthina, "juniper-trees," by the Septuagint and St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- Beroshim, is rendered fir-trees by Pagnin; box or cedars, etc., by others. The precise import of the Hebrew names of plants, animals, etc., is not sufficiently known. (Menochius) --- Fir is use by the best architects. (Virtuvius, 2:9.) (Calmet)
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