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RUE

A strong-scented perennial herb (Ruta graveolens L.), the green-gray leaves of which produce a bitter etheric oil prized as a purgative and as a condiment (Gk. pḗganon). In NT times this plant was imported from Greece. According to Luke 11:42 Jesus referred to a Pharisaic practice of tithing rue, but the text may have originally mentioned not rue but dill (Gk. melánthion; cf. the variant reading in Matt. 23:23); dill was, in fact, tithed, but rue was not (m. Maʿas. 4:5; Šeb. 9:1).






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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