Allon-bachuth
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Allon-bachuth - oak of weeping, a tree near Bethel, at the spot where Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried according to the Book of Genesis 35:8.
Large trees, from their rarity in the plains of Palestine, were frequently designated as landmarks.
This particular tree was probably the same as the "palm tree of Deborah" (Judg. 4:5).
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.