shita · acacia

What it means

shita (שִׁטָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “acacia”.

A desert tree with hard, lasting wood.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A desert tree with hard wood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×26
• Deuteronomy×1
• Isaiah×1

• Exodus 25:5

  rams' skins dyed red, fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 25:10

  They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 25:13

  You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 25:23

  You shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 25:28

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.

• Exodus 26:15

  You shall make the boards for the dwelling of acacia wood, standing upright.

• Exodus 26:26

  You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 26:32

  You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.

• Exodus 26:37

  You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:1

  You shall make the altar of acacia wood: five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 27:6

  You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

• Exodus 30:1

  You shall make an altar for burning incense; of acacia wood you shall make it.

• Exodus 30:5

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 35:7

  and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine skins, and acacia wood;

• Exodus 35:24

  Everyone who set apart a contribution of silver and bronze brought the contribution of YHWH; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

• Exodus 36:20

  And he made the boards for the dwelling of acacia wood, standing upright.

• Exodus 36:31

  And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 36:36

  And he made for it four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

• Exodus 37:1

  And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:4

  And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold,

• Exodus 37:10

  And he made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.

• Exodus 37:15

  And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

• Exodus 37:25

  And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood; a cubit was its length, and a cubit its width, square, and two cubits its height; of one piece with it were its horns.

• Exodus 37:28

  And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.

• Exodus 38:1

  And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; five cubits was its length, and five cubits its width, square, and three cubits its height.

• Exodus 38:6

  And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.

• Deuteronomy 10:3

  So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved two tablets of stone like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

• Isaiah 41:19

  I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the Arabah the cypress, the elm, and the box tree together,