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balm - balsam; to be applied to the wounds of my people. Brought into Judea first from Arabia Felix, by the queen of Sheba, in Solomon’s time [Josephus, Antiquities, 8.2]. The opobalsamum of Pliny; or else [Bochart] the resin drawn from the terebinth. It abounded in Gilead, east of Jordan, where, in consequence, many “physicians” established themselves (Jer 46:11; Jer 51:8; Gen 37:25; Gen 43:11).
health ... recovered - The Hebrew is literally, “lengthening out ... gone up”; hence, the long bandage applied to bind up a wound. So the Arabic also [Gesenius].