Acacia
שִׁטָּהStrong’s H7848shittah (shit-tah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shittah is the Hebrew word usually translated “acacia” and “acacia tree”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,”
Meaning
- Acacia tree, acacia wood
How it's translated
- acacia 27
- acacia tree 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 26
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exodus 25:13And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 25:23Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
- Exodus 25:28And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
- Exodus 26:15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
- Exodus 26:26And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁטָּה shittah · acacia
acacia tree, acacia wood
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “acacia” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ACA'CIA, noun
[Latin acacia a thorn, from Gr., a point.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.