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באשה . This word occurs only in Job xxx i, 40. By the Chaldee it is rendered noxious herbs ; by Symmachus, ἀτελεσφόρητα, plants of imperfect fruit ; by the Septuagint, βάτος, the blackberry bush ; by Castelio, ebulus , “dwarf elder;” by Celsius, aconite ; and by Bishop Stock and Dr. Good, the night-shade . M. Michaëlis maintains, after Celsius, that both this word and ֻּבאשִים , Isaiah v, 2, 4, denote the aconite , a poisonous plant, growing spontaneously and luxuriantly on sunny hills, such as are used for vineyards. He says that this interpretation is certain, because, as Celsius had observed, ביש , in Arabic, denotes the aconite ; and he intimates that it best suits Job xxx i, 40, where it is mentioned as growing instead of barley. The word appears to import a weed not only noxious, but of a fetid smell. CŒLO-SYRIA, hollow or depre ed Syria, Syria in the vale, 1 Macc. xiii, 10. This name imports the hollow land, or region, situated between two long ridges of mountains; and those mountains have been always understood to be Libanus and Anti-libanus. As these ridges run parallel for many leagues, they contain between them a long, extensive, and extremely fruitful valley.