Ivy - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

IVY

i'-vi (kissos):

The only mention of the word in all the sacred writings is in 2 Macc 6:7 in connection with the oppression of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes: "On the day of the king's birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Bacchus (Dionysus) was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Dionysus, carrying ivy," this plant (Hedera helix) being sacred to the Greek god of wine and of the culture of the vine (compare Eur. Bacchae, passim). It was of ivy or of pine that the "corruptible crown" of the famous Isthmian games was made (1 Corinthians 9:25).

J. Hutchison


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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'IVY'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.  

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