Heath: Heb. 'arar,
(Jeremiah 17:6; 48:6) a species of juniper called by the Arabs by
the same name ('arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. "Its gloomy,
stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed close to its
gnarled stem, and cropped close by the wild goats, as it clings to
the rocks about Petra, gives great force to the contrast suggested by
the prophet, between him that trusteth in man, naked and destitute,
and the man that trusteth in the Lord, flourishing as a tree planted
by the waters" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible).
