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tamar. This is a lofty tree without lateral branches, with a large tuft of leafy branches clustering at the top several feet long. At the base of the branches grow the dates in large clusters. Ex. 15: 27; Num. 33: 9; Judges 4: 5; Cant. 7: 7, 8; Jer. 10: 5; Joel 1: 12. The branches were used to construct the booths at the feast of tabernacles. Lev. 23: 40; Neh. 8: 15; and were strewn in the path on the Lord's last entrance into Jerusalem. John 12: 13. There were many representations of palm-trees in the decorations of the temple, as there will also be in the future temple. 1 Kings 6: 29-35; 1 Kings 7:
36; 2 Chr. 3: 5; Ezek. 40: 16-37; Ezek. 41: 18-26. The palm-tree is used as an emblem of fertility in Ps. 92: 12; some trees will bear yearly more than a hundred-weight of dates and for a period of about seventy years. The palm-branches are a token of rest and peace after sorrow. Rev. 7: 9. The palm is the Phoenix dactylifera.
CITY OF PALM-TREES. Name given several times to Jericho because of the palms that grew there. Deut. 34: 3; Judges 1: 16;
Judges 3: 13, etc.