After I first began these A-Z lists, I began one on Bible verses and actually wished to simply problem myself to discover a verse for the letter x or y, and even z.
After doing that submit, I felt excited and pumped. I used to be starting to see the Bible in a brand new and completely different approach. Finding out it in numerous methods than I had earlier than (expositorily, topical, by character title, and so forth.) So I created one other A – Z checklist…Christian phrases.
I wished to see what number of phrases actually had a root of them within the Bible. What number of occasions I simply mentioned the phrases or glossed over them in our English language and by no means gave a thought to how lengthy they’ve been round.
Then I began to get hooked. I wished to dive deeper into the pages of Scripture and see the Bible from completely different angles. Issues I by no means seen earlier than, patterns I by no means realized, classes I by no means noticed.
By the second or third A-Z checklist, I bought hooked!
If you happen to’re like me and also you’ve learn the Bible by a number of occasions, you’ve accomplished character research, you’ve studied expositorily or by subject to find out about God extra, however can’t fairly afford to go to seminary and study, these lists are a terrific center floor.
They offer you MEAT and allow you to to see issues from a unique perspective. I really like doing them. I really like researching for them. I really like placing them collectively, and I really like sharing with you what I’ve realized alongside the best way.
Right now is not any exception. As I’m placing on a necessary oil this morning, I wished to create a necessary oils A-Z checklist (which is coming quickly) and this led me to consider ALL the vegetation, bushes, shrubs, and flowers which can be named within the Bible.
A few of them you’ve by no means even heard of and so it’s enjoyable to then go and analysis what kind of plant or tree that’s and study extra in regards to the Bible in historic context (which is my all-time FAVORITE strategy to research the Bible!!!) 💎
Once we can see the Bible from the author’s viewpoint, from the place their headspace was on the time, their topography, panorama, their tradition, it places issues in a a lot DIFFERENT that means typically than what we take into consideration as we learn a passage.
Right here’s a fast instance…
I’ve learn by Psalm 23 so many occasions and in western tradition, the place we stay, we consider belly-high alfalfa because the “grass” or “inexperienced pastures” they’re referring to there in Psalm 23:2.
However should you research it out, in historic context, in that tradition, they by no means let the grazing animals in belly-high alfalfa. That was individuals meals, not animal meals. No. The animals grazed alongside the rocks, within the dry mountains – that was THEIR pasture.
There’s a tuft of grass right here and a tuft of grass there because the wind from the ocean and the dew makes its approach across the rocks. The streams weren’t the Backyard of Eden, lush and delightful. It was dry, barren mountainscape, with a stream right here or there.
When God leads us alongside, He’s not main us alongside this tremendous fertile Amazon rainforest. Is your life like a fertile Amazon rainforest? I don’t know anybody on the earth who doesn’t have issues. Who’s led and all the pieces is nice, excellent, stunning on a regular basis, like paradise.
He leads us within the dry, barren wasteland we name this earth. He leads us within the midst of a tradition of people that hate us and hate our God.
He’s not main us or making us lie down on this excellent rainforest. It’s the dry, barrenness of the mountains.
It’s an image of our lives. This earth isn’t SUPPOSED to be excellent. If it have been, we wouldn’t look ahead to Heaven. We wouldn’t want Jesus, as a result of we wouldn’t want somebody to steer us and information us in any respect. “I’ve bought this, Lord”, could be our response.
He leads us by the desert, like He did the Israelites. All the time there for us, at all times taking good care of us, at all times tenderly loving us like a shepherd cares for His flock.
Understanding what THEY understood within the Bible occasions, helps us to know God extra. It helps us to know precisely what God is that means and see issues from HIS viewpoint, as a substitute of our personal.
In THIS approach, we will know God extra and so these A-Z lists for me are FUN! They’ve change into for me, an effective way to review my Bibles. To study and see issues from new and thrilling views that I by no means would have identified, had I not of studied the Bible out on this approach.
I hope that these posts encourage you, enlighten you, and that the hearth within you that burns for Christ is lit in such a approach that you simply wish to know extra about our pricey Lord and Savior extra as you research out the Bible in fascinating and distinctive methods.
The most important factor I realized from this research is that the KJV has a whole lot of the precise plant sorts so we will study extra about EXACTLY what was there and over the many years, with newer model Bibles, the specifics are sometimes taken out. As an alternative of claiming the precise kind of tree, for instance, it’s simply mentioned that it’s a tree.
Figuring out the kind of tree or plant helps paint the scene extra vividly in our minds.
So, be a part of me immediately as I share with you all of the vegetation, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible (and I’ve even added in flowers into the combo too!)
Get pleasure from!!! ❤️💎😍
Crops, Bushes, and Shrubs within the Bible That Begins with A – Z
Isn’t it wonderful how God makes use of all the pieces in His creation to show us one thing? Even vegetation, bushes, and shrubs. 🌿 They’re not simply background particulars. God included them for a motive. From the tiny mustard seed (right here’s a terrific craft to do along with your Sunday College children on the mustard seed) to the towering cedar tree. Each has a narrative and a function tucked into the pages of Scripture.
I had a lot enjoyable placing this checklist collectively, it’s like a bit treasure hunt by God’s Phrase! A few of these you’ll acknowledge immediately (good day, fig tree 🍃), and others may shock you (sure, stinkweed is definitely within the Bible 😅).
Whether or not you’re doing a Bible research, educating children, or simply love random Bible details (responsible!), you’re going to like this A–Z checklist.
Remember to try my different A-Z lists too, for extra enjoyable! 🥳
All vegetation, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible are discovered within the ESV model until in any other case famous.
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with A
- Acacia (Isaiah 41:19)
- Algum Tree (2 Chronicles 2:8)
- Almond Tree (Jeremiah 1:11, Numbers 17:8)
- Aloe (Psalm 45:8)
- Anise (Matthew 23:23 KJV)
- Apple Tree (Joel 1:12)
- Apricot Tree (Music of Solomon 2:3 CSB)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with B
- Balsam Tree (2 Samuel 5:24)
- Barley (2 Samuel 17:28)
- Bay Tree (Psalm 37:35 KJV)
- Bdellium (Numbers 11:7)
- Beans (2 Samuel 17:28)
- Field Tree (Isaiah 60:13 NKJV)
- Bramble Bush (Luke 6:44)
- Brier Shrub (Judges 8:7)
- Broom Tree (Job 30:4)
- Bulrush (Isaiah 19:7 NASB)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with C
- Calamus (Music of Solomon 4:14)
- Cane (Exodus 30:23)
- Caper Bush (Ecclesiastes 12:5)
- Carob (Luke 15:16 NASB)
- Cassia (Psalm 45:8)
- Cedar Tree (Isaiah 44:14, Numbers 24:6)
- Chestnut Tree (Ezekiel 31:8 NKJV)
- Cilantro (Coriander comes from Cilantro vegetation; Exodus 16:31)
- Cinnamon Tree (Exodus 30:23)
- Citron (Revelation 18:12 NIV)
- Cockle (Job 31:40 KJV)
- Corn (Joshua 5:11 KJV)
- Cotton (Esther 1:6)
- Crocus (Isaiah 35:1-2)
- Cucumbers (Numbers 11:5)
- Cumin (Isaiah 28:25)
- Cypress (Isaiah 55:13, Isaiah 41:19)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with D
- Dates (2 Samuel 6:19 NASB)
- Dill (Matthew 23:23)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with E
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with F
- Fig Tree (Matthew 24:32)
- Fir (Isaiah 60:13 NIV)
- Flax (Isaiah 19:9)
- Frankincense (Music of Solomon 4:14)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with G
- Galbanum (Exodus 30:34)
- Garlic (Numbers 11:5)
- Gourd Bush (Jonah 4:6 KJV)
- Grapevine (James 3:12)
- Grass (Isaiah 40:7)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with H
- Heath Shrub (Jeremiah 17:6 KJV)
- Hemlock (toxic plant; Hosea 10:4 KJV)
- Henna (Music of Solomon 1:14)
- Hyssop (Psalm 51:7, Exodus 12:2)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with I
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with J
- Juniper (Isaiah 60:13 NIV)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with Okay
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with L
- Laurel Tree (Psalm 37:35)
- Leeks (Numbers 11:5)
- Lentils (2 Samuel 17:28)
- Lily (Matthew 6:28; Music of Solomon 6:2)
- Lotus (Job 40:21)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with M
- Mallow (Job 30:4 KJV)
- Mandrake (Music of Solomon 7:13)
- Melon (Numbers 11:5)
- Millet (Ezekiel 4:9)
- Mint (Luke 11:42)
- Mulberry Tree (2 Samuel 5:24 KJV)
- Mustard (Matthew 13:31)
- Myrrh (Music of Solomon 4:14)
- Myrtle (Isaiah 55:13)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with N
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with O
- Oak Tree (Isaiah 44:14)
- Olive Tree (Psalm 52:8)
- Onion (Numbers 11:5)
- Onycha (Exodus 30:34)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with P
- Palm Tree (Leviticus 23:40)
- Papyrus (Exodus 2:3 NIV)
- Pine (Isaiah 60:13)
- Pistachio (Genesis 43:11)
- Airplane Tree (Ezekiel 31:8)
- Pomegranate Tree (Music of Solomon 6:7)
- Poplar Tree (Genesis 30:37)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with Q
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with R
- Reeds (Exodus 2:3)
- Rose (Isaiah 35:1 KJV)
- Rue (Luke 11:42)
- Rush (Job 8:11 NASB)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with S
- Saffron (Music of Solomon 4:14)
- Seaweed (Jonah 2:5 NIV)
- Shittah Tree (Isaiah 41:19 KJV)
- Spelt (Exodus 9:32 NIV)
- Spikenard (John 12:3)
- Stacte (Exodus 30:34)
- Stinkweed (Job 31:40 NIV)
- Sycamore Tree (Luke 19:4)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with T
- Tamarisk (1 Samuel 22:6)
- Tare (Matthew 13:40 KJV)
- Terebinth (Isaiah 6:13)
- Thistle (Matthew 7:16)
- Thyine (Revelation 18:12 KJV)
- Tumbleweed (Psalm 83:13 NIV)
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with U
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with V
• Crops, bushes, and shrubs within the Bible that begins with W
- Walnut (Music of Solomon 6:11 CSV)
- Wheat (2 Samuel 17:28, Matthew 13:25)
- Willow (Psalm 137:2)
- Wormwood (Proverbs 5:4)
