Snow
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Common in Palestine in winter (Ps 14716). The snow on the tops of the Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year. The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers (Job 24:19; Ps 517; Ps 6814; Isa 1:18). It is mentioned only once in the historical books (2 Sam 23:20).
It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they drank (Prov 25:13; Jer 18:14). No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of ice-water."
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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