MYRTLE, in Latin, Myrthus, in Hebrew, Chadas, is taken for the Shrub that bears the Myrtle Flowers, and for the Flower it self, and for the Perfume that is extracted from thence. Myrtetum is a Place planted with Myrtles. This Shrub was common in Judaea. Ezra1 sent the People into the Fields to fetch Myrtle-branches, Palm, and Olive-branches, to make Tents at the Feast of Tabernacles.
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Nehem. viii. 15. חרםChades, myrthus. See Zech. i. 8, 10, 11. ↩