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Apples of Sodom
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Found on the shores of the Dead Sea; like a cluster of oranges, yellow to the eye, and soft to the touch; but on pressure they explode with a puff, leaving only shreds of the rind and fibers. The Arabs twist the silk into matches for their guns. Compare Deuteronomy 32:32. The Calotropisprocera , an Indian plant, which thrives in the warm valley of Engedi, but is found scarcely elsewhere in Palestine. Its fruit in winter contains a yellowish dust, of pungent quality. (See WINE OF SODOM)
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Apples of Sodom'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/apples-of-sodom.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Apples of Sodom'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/apples-of-sodom.html. 1949.
