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Friday, April 26th, 2024
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Gourd
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Gourd. 1. Jonah 4:6-10. The plant intended is the Ricinus communis, or castor-oil plant, which, a native of Asia, is now naturalized in America, Africa, and the south of Europe. 2. The wild gourd of 2 Kings 4:39, gathered by one of "the sons of the prophets," is a poisonous gourd, supposed to be the colocynth, which bears a fruit of the color and size of an orange. Orientals can easily understand the cause of the mistake.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Gourd'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/g/gourd.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Gourd'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/g/gourd.html. 1893.
