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Shittim

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Shittim [ˈʃɪtɪm]
n
(Placename) Old Testament the site to the east of the Jordan and northeast of the Dead Sea where the Israelites encamped before crossing the Jordan (Numbers 25:1-9)
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Noun1.Shittim - shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruitshittim - shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
Bumelia lycioides, southern buckthorn, mock orange, shittimwood
buckthorn - any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
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Likewise, "what happened from Shittim to Gilgal," likely an allusion to the crossing of the Jordan, is offered in the briefest of terms.
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany: January 30, 2005 by Currents in Theology and Mission
25: And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom.
And lo my flock, don't be brothel creeper like me; RANDY REV HEADS ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
`Finally, in the foothills, through tamarack and sugar pine, shittim bark and silver spruce - and the green and blue mosaic of Douglas fir - the actual river falls 500 feet .
Recall Kesey for great `Notion' by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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