From the leaves they make couches, baskets, bags, mats, and brushes: from the branches or stalks, cages for their poultry, and fences for their gardens; from the fiber of the trunk, thread, ropes, and rigging; from the sap is prepared a spirituous liquor; and the body of the tree furnishes fuel: it is even said that from one variety of the palm-tree, the phoenix farinifera, meal has been extracted, which is found among the fibers of the trunk, and has been used for food. It is presumed by many that when strong drink is referred to in the Bible—as opposed to wine—it means this particular intoxicant. From the crowns, ropes are made. Usually when trees do not bear fruit, they produce more foliage, and this would have pleased Deborah for she obviously needed the shade.Because the ancient historian Herodotus states that a palm can produce bread, wine, and “honey,” there is reason to believe that he calls the liquor “honey” and that some of the references to honey in the OT are therefore to the date palm liquor—and not to the common honey from bees.The trees are dioecious, i.e.
Both of them pictured the righteous man in the sanctuary of God, but while the cherub signified the good man at his best bringing himself and all that he had as an offering to God, the palm tree stood for the good man as one who had been made what he was by the services of the sanctuary; the one was enlarged and ennobled humanity brining its offering to God, the other was that same humanity gaining … In Israel the palm tree is widely distributed.
They boast also of its medicinal virtues. The palm tree has several characteristics about it that picture the life of the Christian. In nature it is found in desert oases as it will tolerate low rainfall and a fairly high degree of soil salinity. The palm tree or branch is used extensively on Jewish coinage and most noticeably appears as a symbol of the land upon the celebrated Judea Capta coins of Vespasian. God refers in His Word to a number of characteristic aspects of the palm tree: an abundance of especially refreshing fruits; its growth: rather fast, and straight up; I. There is also Tamar, "the palm." Palm-Tree. Palm Perhaps the most distinctive tree in Bible lands is the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, with its towering, unbranched trunk crowned with immense spreading leaves several meters long. “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon” (Psalm 92:12). Because the palm takes some thirty years before being fully mature, the planting of the trees is a long-term project, but around Jericho the writer has seen recently evidence of largescale palm planting, and the trees are doing very well. A strong liquor is produced from the spathe that surrounds the flowers. The name Palmer was given to these pilgrims.