Dictionary of Bible Themes: 4450 fruit

4450 fruit

Dictionary of Bible Themes

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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.

Apples

Sweet, pleasant-tasting fruit

Apple trees

Joel 1:12 See also Songs 2:3; Songs 8:5

Figurative use: the apple of the eye:

Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalm 17:8; Proverbs 7:2; Zechariah 2:8

Dates

2 Samuel 6:19 pp 1 Chronicles 16:3

Figs

Numbers 13:23 See also Numbers 20:5; 1 Samuel 25:18-20; Samuel 30:11-12; 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Chronicles 12:40; Mark 11:13

Grapes

Deuteronomy 32:3-14 See also Genesis 40:9-11; Numbers 13:23-24; Numbers 20:5

Melons

Numbers 11:5 See also Isaiah 1:8; Jeremiah 10:5

Pomegranates

Pleasant-tasting fruit

Deuteronomy 8:7-8 See also Numbers 13:23; Numbers 20:5; Songs 6:11; Songs 7:12; Songs 8:2

Pomegranate trees

1 Samuel 14:2 See also Joel 1:12; Haggai 2:19

Use in similes:

Songs 4:3,13; Songs 6:7

Representations of pomegranates in the tabernacle and temple

2 Kings 25:16-17 pp Jeremiah 52:20-23 See also Exodus 28:31-35 pp Exodus 39:22-26; 1 Kings 7:15-20,40-42 pp 2 Chronicles 4:11-13; 2 Chronicles 3:16

Fruit and the fall

Genesis 3:12 See also Genesis 3:1-7

General references to fruit

Fruit as a symbol of spiritual growth

Matthew 3:10; Matthew 12:33