PEAR (; Pirus communis):

By: Emil G. Hirsch, Immanuel Benzinger

The pear is mentioned in the Talmud (see Löw, "Aramäische Pflanzennamen," p. 152). It does not seem to have been extensively cultivated. The Septuagint erroneously rendered απίον (= "pear") for "baka"-trees (I Chron. xiv. 14).

E. G. H. I. Be.