Box-tree

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Box-tree
     (Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according
     to some, a species of cedar growing in Lebanon. The words of
     Ezek. 27:6 literally translated are, "Thy benches they have made
     of ivory, the daughter of the ashur tree," i.e., inlaid with
     ashur wood. The ashur is the box-tree, and accordingly the


     Revised Version rightly reads "inlaid in box wood." This is the
     Buxus sempervirens of botanists. It is remarkable for the beauty
     of its evergreen foliage and for the utility of its hard and
     durable wood.