of the letters, and are of the same signification; both signifying the "ornus", as Hillerus (m) observes, the pine tree or ash; see Isa 44:14 , in whose threshingfloor David now was, and where he had been praying and sacrificing; and God had accepted his prayer, as the Targum, and had answered him, by causing fire to come down on the sacrifice and consume it, and by ordering the angel to put up his sword in its sheath: then he sacrificed there; again by the priests, and continued to do so, for he had sacrificed there before, Ch1 21:26 and finding his sacrifices in that place were acceptable, he repeated them, and did not go to Gibeon, as follows. (m) Onomastic. Sacr. p. 529, 530.