The Plants of the BibleT. Nelson and Sons, 1866 - 192 pages |
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acrid alluded allusion anise Arabic aromatic barley Bible botanists branches bread called carpels cedar Chron cinnamon class Pentandria class Triandria colour common CORIANDER cotton cucumber cultivated cummin Deut Eastern countries Egypt Egyptians Exod Ezek Ezekiel figs fir-tree fitches flax flowers fragrant fruit Galbanum garden grain Greek word grow Hebrew Hebrew word hence herbs Hosea hyssop India Isaiah Israel Kings leaves Lebanon lentiles lily linen Linnean system Lord Luke mandrakes Matt melon mentioned millet mulberry myrrh myrtle native natural order nettles occurs odour Old Testament order Digynia order Monogynia Palestine passages perfume Plane-tree plant belongs pomegranates poplar present day prophet reed referred resembles Royle says Scripture seeds SHITTAH-TREE Solomon ii Song of Solomon south of Europe species spikenard sweet cane sycomore Syria Terebinth thee thereof thorns thou tithe translated tree Triandria unto viii vine wheat wild gourds willows xxiii xxvii yields
Popular passages
Page 110 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 159 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Page 54 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
Page 49 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 110 - There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: 5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went, I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. 6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Page 56 - And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea ; and it should obey you.
Page 69 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him.
Page 56 - And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Page 43 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree ; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 111 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.