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     * a wild vine.
     # Isa 5:4; Jer 2:21; Mt 15:13; Heb 12:15|
     * wild gourds.
       The word {pakk(8193)th,} from {peka,} in Chaldee, to burst, and in
       Syriac, to crack, thunder, is generally supposed to be the
       fruits of the coloquintida, or colocynth; whose leaves are
       large, placed alternately, very much like those of the vine,
       whence it might be called a wild vine:  the flowers are white,
       and the fruit of the gourd kind, of the size of a large apple,
       and when ripe, of a yellow colour, and a pleasant and inviting
       appearance.  It ranks among vegetable poisons, as all intense
       bitters do; but, judiciously employed, it is of considerable
       use in medicine.  It is said that the fruit, when ripe, is so
       full of wind that it bursts, and throws its liquor and seeds
       to a great distance:  and if touched, before it breaks of
       itself, it flies open with an explosion, and discharges its
       foetid contents in the face of him who touched it.