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Judges 6:11, 19; Isaiah 1:29, etc. In Isaiah 61:3 it is rendered in the plural “trees;” Hos. 4:13, “elm” (R.V., “terebinth”). Hos. 4:13, “elm” (R.V., “terebinth”). In 1 Samuel 17:2, 19 it is taken as a proper name, “Elah” (R.V. marg., “terebinth”).
“The terebinth of Mamre, or its lineal successor, remained from the days of Abraham till the fourth century of the Christian era, and on its site Constantine erected a Christian church, the ruins of which still remain.”