Leviticus 23:40 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye shall take you on the first day the boughs, &c.— What we render boughs of goodly trees, is, in the Hebrew, the fruit of the beautiful tree; which the Targum explains of the citron-tree; the fruit of which the Jews still make use of at the feast of tabernacles; see Univ. Hist. book. 1 Chronicles 7. Palm-trees abounded so much in Judea, that they became emblematical of the country. What particular trees are meant by the thick trees, is unknown: some suppose myrtles to have been meant. The original expresses such trees as were thick and complicated, and so fitted to make a booth, which the willows of the brook were well adapted to twine about, and compact together.