Genesis 30:37 - Exposition

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar —literally, a rod (the singular being used collectively for rods) of לִבְנֶה , (from לָבַן , to be white, meaning either the) poplar ( LXX ; in Hosea 4:13 ; Vulgate, Kalisch) or the storax fresh green— and of the hazel — לוּז , the hazel tree (Raschi, Kimchi, Arabic, Luther, Furst, Kalisch) or the almond tree (Vulgate, Saadias, Calvin, Gesenius, 'Speaker's Commentary')— and chestnut tree ;— עַרְמוֹן , the plane tree ( LXX ; Vulgate, et alii ), so called from its height— and pilled white strakes in them (literally, peeled off in them peeled places white ), and made the white appear (literally, making naked the white ) which was in the rods.