Bible Dictionary: Water: Necessary to Vegetation

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Genesis 2:5,6
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
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Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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Isaiah 1:30
For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
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Voyage to Benares.
... could be taken in the way of luggage than necessary clothing ... The land down to the
water's edge was covered with the densest tropical vegetation, so that ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter ii voyage to benares.htm

Light and Shade.
... the villages are fields covered with vegetation most dense ... The water was thronged
with boats filled with Chinese to ... of that functionary it is necessary to get ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/iv light and shade.htm

The Early Training of a Race.
... During the summer the vegetation disappears almost entirely, and ... of the country makes
it necessary for its ... how to secure adequate supplies of food and water. ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study xi the early training.htm

On the Firmament.
... As, therefore, it was necessary to avoid an open struggle ... This is the reason of the
abundance of water at the ... of the help of fire, but the vegetation of trees ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily iii on the firmament.htm

'Give Me to Drink'
... she finds, in the midst of the lush vegetation round the ... may be gathered from the
fact that the water that He ... deeds of His life more than their necessary food. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/give me to drink.htm

The Conquest of Babylon.
... from the ground; so high, that it was necessary to build ... of the upper terrace, by
which water could be ... the walks, and introducing new varieties of vegetation. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter viii the conquest of.htm

My California Trip
... the ocean, and the one in the water would come ... food and to do whatever else was
necessary to make ... mountain to the park, we passed through vegetation in various ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter xvii my california trip.htm

All Mankind Guilty; Or, Every Man Knows More than He Practises.
... Temporary evil is the necessary condition, he asserts, of all ... only result in a more
luxuriant vegetation, and an ... of Boodhism, are clear as water, and lucid as ...
/.../shedd/sermons to the natural man/all mankind guilty or every.htm

The City of the "Elegant Gate"[*]
... between the lovely scenery and dense vegetation of many ... digging down, and walling
up, if necessary, forming terraces ... The water is conducted into the higher of ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/iii the city of the.htm

The First Year --Society and Climate.
... verandah the degree of light absolutely necessary with the ... grass over them, on which
water is continually ... see things grow; but in India vegetation takes such a ...
/.../chapter vi the first yearsociety.htm