Trees
93 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
76 sections
- (Barren) of the Wicked
- (Casting Their Leaves Yet Retaining Their Substance) of
- (Dry) of the Wicked Ripe for Judgment
- (Dry) of Useless Persons
- (Duration of) of Continued Prosperity of Saints
- (Evergreen) of Saints
- (Good and Fruitful) of Saints
- (Green) of the Innocence of Christ
- (Producing Evil Fruit) the Wicked
- (Shaking of the Leaves off) the Terror of the Wicked
- Afford an Agreeable Shade in Eastern Countries During The
- Almond
- Almug or Algum
- Apple
- Ash
- Bay
- Box
- Cedar
- Chestnut
- Cyprus
- Designed to Beautify the Earth
- Different Kinds of Mentioned of the Forest
- Different Kinds of Mentioned of the Wood
- Different Kinds of Mentioned: Bearing Fruit
- Different Kinds of Mentioned: Deciduous or Casting the Leaves
- Different Kinds of Mentioned: Evergreen
- Each Kind Has Its own Seed for Propagating Its Species
- Each Kind of, Known by Its Fruit
- Early Custom of Planting, in Consecrated Grounds
- Fig
- Fir
- Given As Food to the Animal Creation
- God Increases and Multiplies the Fruit of, for his People
- God often Renders, Barren As a Punishment
- Juniper
- Lign-Aloes
- Made for the Glory of God
- Mulberry
- Mustard
- Myrtle
- Nourished by the Earth
- Nourished by the Rain from Heaven
- Nourished: Through Their own Sap
- Oak
- Often Propagated by Birds Who Carry the Seeds Along with Them
- Often Suffered From: Desolating Armies
- Often Suffered From: Fire
- Often Suffered From: Hail and Frost
- Often Suffered From: Locusts
- Oil-Tree
- Olive
- Originally Created by God
- Palm
- Parts of Mentioned: The Branches
- Parts of Mentioned: The Fruit or Seeds
- Parts of Mentioned: The Leaves
- Parts of Mentioned: The Roots
- Parts of Mentioned: The Stem or Trunk
- Parts of Mentioned: The Tender Shoots
- Pine
- Planted by Man
- Pomegranate
- Shittah or Shittim
- Solomon Wrote the History of
- Specially Flourished Beside the Rivers and Streams of Water
- Sycamore
- Teil
- The Jews: Considered Trees on Which Criminals Were Executed
- The Jews: Often Buried Under
- The Jews: Often Executed Criminals On
- The Jews: Often Pitched Their Tents Under
- The Jews: Prohibited from Cutting Down Fruit Bearing, for Sieges
- The Jews: Prohibited from Planting in Consecrated Places
- Vine
- when Cut Down often Sprouted from Their Roots Again
- Willow
(Barren) of the Wicked
- Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
(Casting Their Leaves Yet Retaining Their Substance) of
- Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
(Dry) of the Wicked Ripe for Judgment
- Luke 23:31 For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
(Dry) of Useless Persons
- Isaiah 56:3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
(Duration of) of Continued Prosperity of Saints
- Isaiah 65:22 No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
(Evergreen) of Saints
- Psalm 1:1–3 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. …
(Good and Fruitful) of Saints
- Numbers 24:6 They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
- Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Isaiah 61:3 to console the mourners in Zion — to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, …
- Jeremiah 17:8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- Matthew 7:17–18 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. …
(Green) of the Innocence of Christ
- Luke 23:31 For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
(Producing Evil Fruit) the Wicked
- Matthew 7:17–19 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. …
(Shaking of the Leaves off) the Terror of the Wicked
- Isaiah 7:2 When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
Afford an Agreeable Shade in Eastern Countries During The
- Genesis 18:4 Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
- Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.
Almond
- Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man — a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, …
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels — for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
- Jeremiah 1:11 And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
Almug or Algum
- 1 Kings 10:11–12 (The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones. …
- 2 Chronicles 9:10–11 (The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones. …
Apple
- Song of Solomon 2:3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
- Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
- Joel 1:12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard— are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
Ash
- Isaiah 44:14 He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Bay
- Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
Box
- Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Cedar
- 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Chestnut
- Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
Cyprus
- Isaiah 44:14 He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Designed to Beautify the Earth
- Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Different Kinds of Mentioned of the Forest
- Isaiah 10:19 The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
Different Kinds of Mentioned of the Wood
- Song of Solomon 2:3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
Different Kinds of Mentioned: Bearing Fruit
- Nehemiah 9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.
- Ecclesiastes 2:5 I made gardens and parks for myself, where I planted all kinds of fruit trees.
- Ezekiel 47:12 Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will …
Different Kinds of Mentioned: Deciduous or Casting the Leaves
- Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
Different Kinds of Mentioned: Evergreen
- Psalm 37:35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- Jeremiah 17:2 Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
Each Kind Has Its own Seed for Propagating Its Species
- Genesis 1:11–12 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. …
Each Kind of, Known by Its Fruit
- Matthew 12:33 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
Early Custom of Planting, in Consecrated Grounds
- Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
Fig
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Fir
- 1 Kings 5:10 So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
- Psalm 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Given As Food to the Animal Creation
- Genesis 1:29–30 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. …
- Deuteronomy 20:19 When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of …
God Increases and Multiplies the Fruit of, for his People
- Leviticus 26:4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Ezekiel 34:27 The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from …
- Joel 2:22 Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.
God often Renders, Barren As a Punishment
- Leviticus 26:20 and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
Juniper
- 1 Kings 19:4–5 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” …
Lign-Aloes
- Numbers 24:6 They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
Made for the Glory of God
- Psalm 148:9 mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,
Mulberry
- 2 Samuel 5:23–24 So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees. …
Mustard
- Matthew 13:32 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
Myrtle
- Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
- Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
- Zechariah 1:8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
Nourished by the Earth
- Genesis 1:12 The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Nourished by the Rain from Heaven
- Isaiah 44:14 He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
Nourished: Through Their own Sap
- Psalm 104:16 The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,
Oak
- Isaiah 1:30 For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
Often Propagated by Birds Who Carry the Seeds Along with Them
- Ezekiel 17:3 and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
- Ezekiel 17:5 He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
Often Suffered From: Desolating Armies
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
- Isaiah 10:34 He will clear the forest thickets with an axe, and Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
Often Suffered From: Fire
- Joel 1:19 To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
Often Suffered From: Hail and Frost
- Exodus 9:25 Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
- Psalm 78:47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Often Suffered From: Locusts
- Exodus 10:5 They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
- Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
Oil-Tree
- Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Olive
- Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
Originally Created by God
- Genesis 1:11–12 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. …
- Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Palm
- Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
Parts of Mentioned: The Branches
- Leviticus 23:40 On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
- Daniel 4:14 He called out in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
Parts of Mentioned: The Fruit or Seeds
- Leviticus 27:30 Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 36:30 I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.
Parts of Mentioned: The Leaves
- Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
- Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.
- Matthew 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
Parts of Mentioned: The Roots
- Jeremiah 17:8 He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
Parts of Mentioned: The Stem or Trunk
- Isaiah 11:1 Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
- Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? …
Parts of Mentioned: The Tender Shoots
- Luke 21:29–30 Then Jesus told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. …
Pine
- Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Planted by Man
- Leviticus 19:23 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must not be eaten.
Pomegranate
- Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
- Joel 1:12 The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple— all the trees of the orchard— are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
Shittah or Shittim
- Exodus 36:20 Next, he constructed upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
- Isaiah 41:19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,
Solomon Wrote the History of
- 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Specially Flourished Beside the Rivers and Streams of Water
- Ezekiel 47:12 Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will …
Sycamore
- 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Psalm 78:47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Amos 7:14 “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- Luke 19:4 So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
Teil
- Isaiah 6:13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
The Jews: Considered Trees on Which Criminals Were Executed
- Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
The Jews: Often Buried Under
- Genesis 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
- 1 Samuel 21:13 So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
The Jews: Often Executed Criminals On
- Deuteronomy 21:22–23 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, …
- Joshua 10:26 After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- Genesis 40:19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
The Jews: Often Pitched Their Tents Under
- Genesis 18:1 Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
- Genesis 18:4 Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
- Judges 4:5 And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
- 1 Samuel 22:6 Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.
The Jews: Prohibited from Cutting Down Fruit Bearing, for Sieges
- Deuteronomy 20:19 When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of …
The Jews: Prohibited from Planting in Consecrated Places
- Deuteronomy 16:21 Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
Vine
- Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
- Ezekiel 15:2 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest?
when Cut Down often Sprouted from Their Roots Again
- Job 14:7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
Willow
- Isaiah 44:4 They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
- Ezekiel 17:5 He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.