Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
2. (v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influential; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
3. (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
4. (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
5. (v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
6. (v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
7. (v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
8. (v. t.) To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
9. (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
10. (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
11. (v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
12. (n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
13. (n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
14. (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
15. (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
16. (n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
17. (n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FLOURISHflur'-ish (parach, tsuts; anathallo):
The translation of parach, "to break forth" (Psalm 72:7; Psalm 92:12, 13 Proverbs 14:11 Isaiah 66:14 Songs 6:11; Songs 7:12; the Revised Version (British and American) "budded"); of tsuts "to bloom" (Psalm 72:16, 90:6; Psalm 92:7; Psalm 103:15; 132:18); ra`anan, "green," "fresh," is translated "flourishing" in Psalm 92:14, the Revised Version (British and American) "green," and ra`anan, Aramaic in Daniel 4:4; nubh, "to sprout" (Zechariah 9:17, the King James Version "cheerful").
In an interesting passage (Ecclesiastes 12:5 the King James Version), the Hiphil future of na'ats, meaning properly "to pierce or strike," hence, to slight or reject, is translated "flourish"; it is said of the old man "The almond tree shall flourish," the Revised Version (British and American) "blossom" (so Ewald, Delitzsch, etc.); na'ats has nowhere else this meaning; it is frequently rendered "contemn;" "despise," etc. Other renderings are, "shall cause loathing" (Gesenius, Knobel, etc.), "shall be despised," i.e. the hoary head; "The almond tree shall shake off its flowers," the silvery hairs falling like the fading white flowers of the almond tree; by others it is taken to indicate "sleeplessness," the name of the almond tree (shaqedh) meaning the watcher or early riser (compare Jeremiah 1:11, "a rod of an almond-tree," literally, "a wakeful (or early) tree"), the almond being the first of the trees to wake from the sleep of winter.
See ALMOND.
"Flourish" appears once only in the New Testament, in the King James Version, as translation of anathallo, "to put forth anew," or "to make put forth anew" (Philippians 4:10): "Your care for me hath flourished again," the Revised Version (British and American) "Ye have revived your thought for me."
W. L. Walker
Greek
330. anathallo -- to revive ... to revive. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anathallo Phonetic Spelling:
(an-ath-al'-lo) Short Definition: I thrive or
flourish again Definition: I thrive
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/330.htm - 6kStrong's Hebrew
6524. parach -- to bud, sprout, shoot... abroad, abundantly, blossom, break forth out, bud,
flourish, make fly,
grow, A primitive root; to break forth as a bud, ie Bloom
... /hebrew/6524.htm - 5k 5107. nub -- to bear fruit
... 5106, 5107. nub. 5108 . to bear fruit. Transliteration: nub Phonetic Spelling:
(noob) Short Definition: flourish. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6692. tsuwts -- to blossom, shine, sparkle
... tsuwts. 6692a . to blossom, shine, sparkle. Transliteration: tsuwts Phonetic Spelling:
(tsoots) Short Definition: bloom. bloom, blossom, flourish, show self ...
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5006. naats -- to spurn, treat with contempt
... 3), spurned (8), spurns (1). abhor, give occasion to blaspheme, contemn,
despise, flourish, great, provoke. A primitive root; to ...
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6524a. parach -- to bud, sprout, shoot
... 6524, 6524a. parach. 6524b . to bud, sprout, shoot. Transliteration:
parach Short Definition: flourish. Word Origin a prim. root ...
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6692a. tsuts -- to blossom, shine, sparkle
... root Definition to blossom, shine, sparkle NASB Word Usage blossom (1), budded
(1), flourish (1), flourished (1), flourishes (2), produced blossoms (1), shine ...
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Library
Let us Get up Early to the vineyards; Let us See if the vine ...
... Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, if the flowers
bring forth fruit, and the pomegranate has blossomed; there will I give ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/12 let us get up.htm
Improvement
... SERMON XVIII. IMPROVEMENT. PSALM xcii.12. "The righteous shall flourish like
the palm-tree: he shall grow like the cedar in Lebanon. ...
/.../kingsley/twenty-five village sermons/sermon xviii improvement.htm
But that You May not Suppose this to be a Novel Doctrine Peculiar ...
... But if its root have waxed old in the earth, and the stock thereof be dead in the
dust, yet through the scent of water it will flourish again, and put forth ...
/.../44 but that you may.htm
February 11 Evening
... I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried
up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. ...
/.../anonymous/daily light on the daily path/february 11 evening.htm
Psalm LIV.
... 3. These men sometimes are observed of the weak sons of light, and their feet totter,
when they have seen evil men in felicity to flourish, and they say to ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm liv.htm
The General Service to one Martyr.
... undying theology. The Versicle : The righteous shall flourish like the
palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Raised ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xiv the general service.htm
Psalm XCII.
... works: Thy thoughts are made very deep" (ver.5). Verily, my brethren, there is no
sea so deep as these thoughts of God, who maketh the wicked flourish, and the ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xcii.htm
The Disciple, -- Sometimes this Question is Asked, "Since God is ...
... destructive. The sun by its light and heat makes all vegetable things to
live and flourish, and also causes them to wither and die. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/singh/at the masters feet/section i the disciple 3.htm
The Relation of Home to the Church.
... Like the church, it rises superior to all the fluctuations of civil society, and
will live and flourish in all its tender charities, in all its sweet enjoyments ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter iv the relation of.htm
The General Service to one Hieromartyr
... worthy of bliss. The Versicle: The righteous shall flourish like the
palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Bound with ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xvi the general service.htm
Thesaurus
Flourish (26 Occurrences)... to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or
amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a
flourish of rhetoric
.../f/flourish.htm - 18kFlourished (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Flourish. Multi-Version Concordance
Flourished (8 Occurrences). Philippians 4:10 But I rejoiced ...
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Thrive (11 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a
plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a ...
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Brandish (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (v.) To move or wave, as a weapon; as to brandish a shotgun; to shake or flourish.
2. (n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms. ...
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Blossom (23 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower. 5. (n.)
To flourish and prosper. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BLOOM; BLOSSOM. ...
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Sycomore (3 Occurrences)
... It is a tree which cannot flourish in the cooler mountain heights; it cannot
stand frost (Psalm 78:47). It was one of the distinguishing ...
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Garden (68 Occurrences)
... there is no rain during 4 or 5 months, at least, of the year, the gardens are often
the only spots where trees and other vegetation can flourish, and here the ...
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Tree (245 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 6:29, 32, 35; 1 Kings 7:36 2 Chronicles 3:5). It is a symbol of beauty
(Songs 7:7) and of the righteous man: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm ...
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Crop (33 Occurrences)
... the vineyard. (See RSV NIV). Job 14:9 From the fragrance of water it doth
flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant. (YLT). Job 18 ...
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Abound (36 Occurrences)
... (See NAS RSV NIV). Psalms 72:7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and
abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. (See RSV NIV). ...
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