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Definition of Shittah

Shittah
Shittah Shit"tah, Shittah tree Shit"tah tree`, n. [Heb. shitt[=a]h, pl. shitt[=i]m.] A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

Meaning of Shittah from wikipedia

- ****tah tree (Hebrew: שטה) or the plural "****tim" was used in the Tanakh to refer to trees belonging to the genera Vac****ia and Faidherbia (both formerly...
- ****tim may mean several different things: Botany ****tim, the plural of ****tah, which is Hebrew for wood from the acacia tree, which appears in the Bible...
- Beit Ha****a (Hebrew: בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה, lit. House of the Acacia) is a kibbutz in northern Israel, under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council. As...
- ****tah tree, dedicated to the Patron Saint, Wady Feiran...
- Bezalel ben Abraham Ashke**** (Hebrew: בצלאל בן אברהם אשכנזי) (c. 1520 – c. 1592) was a rabbi and talmudist who lived in Ottoman Israel during the 16th...
- The Tosafot, Tosafos or Tosfot (Hebrew: תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed...
- of another uncle, Rabbi Bezalel Ashke**** (best known as the author of ****tah Mekubetzet), he became proficient in that branch of Jewish learning. At...
- Vac****ia seyal, the red acacia, known also as the ****tah tree (the source of ****tim wood), is a thorny, 6– to 10-m-high (20 to 30 ft) tree with a pale...
- A comprehensive anthology consisting of extracts from all these is the ****tah Mekubbetzet of Bezalel Ashke****. Other commentaries produced in Spain...
- studies in Egypt were greatly fostered by Bezalel Ashke****, author of the Shiṭṭah Mequbbeṣet. Among his pupils were Isaac Luria, who as a young man had gone...