IVY-TREE, in Latin, Hedera; an evergreen shrub, which fastens upon walls and trees for its support. The1 Ivy tree was consecrated to Bacchus, and the figure of an ivy leaf was impress’d with a hot iron upon those who were devoted to this false God. We have observed in the article Jonah, that what the old Greek interpreters translated gourd, cucurbita, S. Jerom translated hedera. We cannot tell how the Hebrews called ivy ; for it is certain that the Hebrew, Kikajon, which we read in Jonah, chap. iv. 6, 7, 9. does not signify this shrub.
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Matth. i. 19. See Grot. Drus. Hammon, Prinæ. Camerar, Cnactebul. Toynard. Martianay, Gatak. ad Matt. i, 19, &c. ↩