PLANE TREE (עֶרְמﯴן, H6895). The Heb. word ’armôn could be tr. “plane tree,” but actually in the KJV it occurs as CHESTNUT (Gen 30:37 and Ezek 31:8).

If it is a plane then it is the Eastern plane, Plantanus orientalis, normally called the Oriental plane. This plane grows in Pal. and Mount Lebanon. It bears flowers in clusters of rounded balls on a common stalk. The leaves are large and resemble those of the sycamore. This tree was held sacred in the E, and was very much valued for its shade by the Greeks.

In Ecclesiasticus 24:14, it says: “like a plane tree I grew tall.” This would have been a huge tree seventy ft. tall or more.