The Definition of the word Rose

Rose

Many varieties of the rose proper are indigenous to Syria. The "famed rose of Damascus is white, but there are also red and" yellow roses. In Cant. 2:1 and Isa. 35:1 the Hebrew word "habatstseleth (found only in these passages), rendered "rose" "(R.V. marg., "autumn crocus"), is supposed by some to mean the" "oleander, by others the sweet-scented narcissus (a native of" "Palestine), the tulip, or the daisy; but nothing definite can be" affirmed regarding it. "The "rose of Sharon" is probably the cistus or rock-rose, "several species of which abound in Palestine. "Mount Carmel" "especially abounds in the cistus, which in April covers some of" the barer parts of the mountain with a glow not inferior to that "of the Scottish heather." (See [539]MYRRH [2].)"