baytree, bay tree

1. Ord. Lang. The same as BAY (4), No. 2. It is sometimes called also the Sweet Bay-tree. 2. Scripture. The bay-tree of Ps. xxxvii. Heb. אֶזְרָח ) ezrachh ), from זָרַח ) sarachh ( = to spring up, may be the Laurus nobilis, though this is by no means certain. Gesenius makes it simply an indigenous tree, as distinguished from one transplanted. The Septuagint translators, mistaking אַרְזָה ) arzachh ( for אֶזְרָח ) ezracch ), called the tree "the cedar of Lebanon." "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay -tree." Ps. xxxvii. 35.