Nehemiah 8:15

15. Unto the mount Where the branches of trees would be naturally sought.

Olive… pine… myrtle… palm… thick trees Leviticus xxiii, 40, mentions only palms, thick trees, and willows. No special stress seems to have been laid on the kind of trees, but any and all kinds of trees, whose boughs would serve for making booths, might be sought. The word for pine is literally tree of fatness, and is usually understood of the wild olive, or oleaster, but this is far from certain. The Hebrew word occurs but twice elsewhere; in 1 Kings 6:23, where it is rendered olive tree, and in Isaiah 41:19, where it is rendered oil tree. The myrtle is here first mentioned in the Bible. Royle (in Kitto’s Cyclopaedia) speaks of its ancient and modern celebrity as “justly due to the rich colouring of its dark green and shining leaves, contrasted with the white starlike clusters of its flowers, affording in hot countries a pleasant shade under its branches, and diffusing an agreeable odour from its flowers or bruised leaves.” Thick trees denote any trees of thick foliage.