Ash: (Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only
(Isaiah 44:14) (R.V., "fir
tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate
versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs aran, found still in
the valleys of Arabia Petraea, whose leaf resembles that of the
mountain ash. This may be the tree meant. Our ash tree is not known
in Syria.
