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Sometimes also vocalized, perhaps archaically, הָדָס(hāḏā́s), and probably the same as Aramaicאָסָא / ܐܵܣܵܐ(ʾāsā, “myrtle”), Arabicآس(ʔās, “myrtle”), Akkadian𒄑𒊍(asum, “myrtle”) with multiple determiners, compare typologically Hebrewצַתְרָה(ṣaṯrā́, “savory”), Arabicزَعْتَر(zaʕtar, “wild thyme”), also denoting odoriferous plants, explained semantically as an old ذُوعِطْرٍ(ḏū ʕiṭrin, “having scent”).
I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that in the bottom; and behind him red horses, speckled, and white.[1]
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as written.[1]
Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 334a
Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 50–51
Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 257-274
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