Shittah-tree

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shittah-tree
     (Isa. 41:19; R.V., "acacia tree"). Shittah wood was employed in
     making the various parts of the tabernacle in the wilderness,
     and must therefore have been indigenous in the desert in which
     the Israelites wandered. It was the acacia or mimosa (Acacia
     Nilotica and A. seyal). "The wild acacia (Mimosa Nilotica),


     under the name of _sunt_, everywhere represents the seneh, or
     senna, of the burning bush. A slightly different form of the
     tree, equally common under the name of _seyal_, is the ancient
     'shittah,' or, as more usually expressed in the plural form, the
     'shittim,' of which the tabernacle was made." Stanley's Sinai,
     etc. (Ex. 25:10, 13, 23, 28).