Definition

the acacia (from its scourging thorns)

Etymology

feminine of a derivative (only in the plural שִׁטִּים; meaning the sticks of wood) from the same as H7850 (שֹׁטֵט);

Word family

• שֹׁטֵט shôṭêṭ

How the KJV renders it

• shittah
• shittim. See also H1029 (בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.