The shittah tree (?Acacia seyal); also as place name, prob. by confusion with Bibl. Shechem [quot.: a1398]; thorn of sechim, fig. a righteous man in heaven; tres of sechim, shittah trees; also, acacia……

Usu. coll. Images or representations of household gods, usu. associated with a cult of ancestor worship in Biblical Israel; also, an image or a representation of one such god [vr. to 1st quot.]. …