Dictionary of Bible Themes Edible produce of trees, usually sweet and pleasant-tasting. The climate of the Near East is particularly suitable for a wide range of fruit and several varieties are mentioned in Scripture. Songs 2:3Apples See also Sweet, pleasant-tasting fruit Proverbs 25:11Songs 2:5; 7:8 Joel 1:12 See also Apple trees Songs 2:3; 8:5Deuteronomy 32:10 Psalms 17:8 Figurative use: the apple of the eye: Proverbs 7:2Zechariah 2:8 2 Samuel 6:19 Dates pp 1Ch 16:3 Numbers 13:23Figs See also Numbers 20:51 Samuel 25:18-20; 30:11-12 2 Samuel 16:1 1 Chronicles 12:40 Mark 11:13 Deuteronomy 32:3-14 Grapes See also Genesis 40:9-11Numbers 13:23-24; 20:5 Numbers 11:5 Melons See also Isaiah 1:8Jeremiah 10:5 Deuteronomy 8:7-8 Pomegranates See also Pleasant-tasting fruit Numbers 13:23; 20:5Songs 6:11; 7:12; 8:2 1 Samuel 14:2 See also Pomegranate trees Joel 1:12Haggai 2:19 Songs 4:3,13; 6:7 Use in similes: 2 Kings 25:16-17Representations of pomegranates in the tabernacle and temple See also Exodus 28:31-35pp Jer 52:20-23 1 Kings 7:15-20,40-42pp Ex 39:22-26 2 Chronicles 3:16pp 2Ch 4:11-13 Genesis 3:12Fruit and the fall See also Genesis 3:1-7Amos 8:1-2 General references to fruit See also Genesis 1:11-12,29Leviticus 19:23-25 Ecclesiastes 2:5 Ezekiel 47:12 Micah 7:1 Revelation 22:1-2 Matthew 3:10; 12:33 Fruit as a symbol of spiritual growth See also 3254 Holy Spirit, fruit of4402 plants 4404 food 4440 fig-tree 4458 grape 4494 papyrus 4528 trees 4534 vine 4534 vine 8255 fruit, spiritual 8256 fruitfulness 8347 spiritual growth |
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