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In biblical literature, the term "shoots" often symbolizes new growth, hope, and the fulfillment of God's promises. The imagery of shoots is frequently used in the Bible to convey themes of renewal, restoration, and the emergence of life from what was once barren or desolate.

Old Testament References

One of the most significant uses of the term "shoot" is found in the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. In Isaiah 11:1, the prophet speaks of a future hope for Israel: "Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit." This passage is widely interpreted as a messianic prophecy, foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ, who would emerge from the lineage of David, the son of Jesse. The imagery of a shoot springing from a stump suggests the idea of life and vitality emerging from what appears to be dead or cut down, symbolizing the hope of redemption and the continuation of God's covenant with His people.

Similarly, in Jeremiah 23:5, the prophet declares, "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as king and will administer justice and righteousness in the land." Here, the "righteous Branch" is again a reference to the Messiah, emphasizing the justice and righteousness that will characterize His reign.

New Testament Fulfillment

The New Testament writers see the fulfillment of these Old Testament prophecies in the person of Jesus Christ. The imagery of the shoot and branch is understood as a metaphor for Christ's humble beginnings and His role as the source of spiritual life and renewal for all who believe in Him. In John 15:5, Jesus Himself uses similar imagery, saying, "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing." This passage underscores the necessity of remaining connected to Christ, the true source of life and growth.

Symbolism and Themes

The symbolism of shoots in the Bible is rich with meaning. It conveys the idea of hope and new beginnings, often in the context of God's faithfulness to His promises. The shoot represents the potential for growth and the assurance of God's ongoing work in the world, even when circumstances seem bleak.

In a broader sense, the imagery of shoots can also be applied to the believer's life. Just as a shoot grows and matures, so too are Christians called to grow in their faith and bear fruit in their spiritual lives. This growth is made possible through a relationship with Christ, who nourishes and sustains His followers.

Conclusion

The biblical concept of shoots serves as a powerful reminder of God's redemptive plan and the hope that is found in Jesus Christ. Through the imagery of new growth, the Bible communicates the assurance of God's promises and the transformative power of His grace.

Strong's Hebrew

3127. yoneqeth -- a young shoot, twig
... 3126, 3127. yoneqeth. 3128 . a young shoot, twig. Transliteration: yoneqeth
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-neh'-keth) Short Definition: shoots. Word Origin fem. ...
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909. badad -- to be separate, isolated
... 908, 909. badad. 910 . to be separate, isolated. Transliteration: badad Phonetic
Spelling: (baw-dad') Short Definition: shoots. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7973. shelach -- a missile, weapon, sprout
... Word Origin from shalach Definition a missile, weapon, sprout NASB Word Usage
defenses (1), Sheol (1), shoots (1), weapon (3), weapons (1). ...
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5125. nun -- to propagate, increase
... be continued. A primitive root; to resprout, ie Propagate by shoots; figuratively,
to be perpetual -- be continued. 5124, 5125. nun. 5126 . Strong's Numbers
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Library

But that You May not Suppose this to be a Novel Doctrine Peculiar ...
... 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 shoots as a ...
/.../44 but that you may.htm

But, Says Some One, "Are These Things to be Understood of the Lord ...
... alien stock. Rightly, therefore, was he called "a wild-vine," because he
in nowise sprung from the shoots of the vine of Israel. And ...
/.../21 but says some one.htm

Dilemma and Deliverance
... of man has reproved me to my face and cast me from his presence, and he will be
gracious to me no more." Another season when Satan usually shoots this arrow is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/dilemma and deliverance.htm

He Thus Shows the Oneness of the Eternal Son with the Father the ...
... of wine, a change to which the rays of the sun contribute in some degree, which
by their warmth draw out the moisture from the depth to the shoots, and by a ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 4 he thus shows.htm

Fragment iv.
... come in which vines shall grow, having each ten thousand branches, and in each branch
ten thousand twigs, and in each true twig ten thousand shoots, and in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/papias/fragments of papias/fragment iv.htm

The Cleansing
... No; it is the cutting off of the long shoots of the previous year, the removal of
something that comes from within, that has been produced by the life of the ...
/.../murray/the true vine meditations for a month on john 151-16/the cleansing.htm

Abide
... The graft shoots its little roots and fibers down into the stem, and the stem grows
up into the graft, and what has been called the structural union is effected ...
/.../murray/the true vine meditations for a month on john 151-16/abide.htm

Description of the Different Heretical Monsters which Spring from ...
... Description of the different heretical monsters which spring from one another. For
these shoots of an unnatural seed are no new thing in the churches. ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter ii description of the.htm

The Work of Regeneration.
... It is true the wild trunk vigorously resists the reformation of its nature by its
wild shoots below the graft, and if successful its wild nature will forcibly ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxii the work of regeneration.htm

Malachy's Pity for his Deceased Sister. He Restores the Monastery ...
... In fine, to such an extent did its shoots fill Ireland and Scotland[291] that those
verses of David seem to have sung beforehand especially of these times ...
/.../chapter ii malachys pity for.htm

Thesaurus

Shoots (32 Occurrences)
...Shoots (32 Occurrences). Matthew 13:26 But when the blade shoots up and the grain
is formed, then appears the darnel also. ... His shoots go forth over his garden. ...
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Thin (39 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 17:6 And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature,
To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it ...
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Shoot (51 Occurrences)
... 6. (vi) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as,
a plant shoots out a bud. 7. (vi) To plane straight; to fit by planing. ...
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Shooting (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoot. 2. (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots;
as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. ...
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Jaazer (12 Occurrences)
... of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached
unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out ...
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Park (2 Occurrences)
... 2:5); "Asaph the keeper of the king's forest," the Revised Version margin "park"
(Nehemiah 2:8). The same word occurs in Songs 4:13, "Thy shoots are an orchard ...
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Branchbough
... The tender branch thereof will not cease" (Job 14:7). Used figuratively of Israel,
Psalm 80:11 (the Revised Version (British and American) "shoots"); Ezekiel 17 ...
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Sprout (25 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate;
to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. ...
/s/sprout.htm - 13k

Branches (103 Occurrences)
... (BBE DBY RSV NIV). Psalms 80:11 It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots
to the River. ... Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea. ...
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Quickly (254 Occurrences)
... (BBE NIV). Mark 4:5 Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth,
and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil; (WEY NIV). ...
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Shoots (32 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:26
But when the blade shoots up and the grain is formed, then appears the darnel also.
(WEY)

Mark 4:5
Some falls on the rocky ground where it finds but little earth, and it shoots up quickly because it has no depth of soil;
(WEY)

2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
(See NIV)

Job 8:16
He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Job 14:7
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Job 14:9
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
(See NIV)

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 80:11
It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
(See RSV NIV)

Proverbs 26:18
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
(WEB)

Song of Songs 4:13
Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish with the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down its choice branches, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.
(WEB ASV DBY RSV NIV)

Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.
(See JPS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 37:27
This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 2:21
And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
(DBY YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah's.
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 6:9
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.
(See JPS)

Jeremiah 48:32
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with more than the weeping of Jaazer: thy shoots passed over the sea, they reached to the sea of Jaazer. The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
(DBY)

Ezekiel 17:4
He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.
(DBY)

Ezekiel 17:6
And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature, To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it becometh a vine, and maketh boughs, And sendeth forth beauteous branches.
(YLT NAS)

Ezekiel 17:7
And there is another great eagle, Great-winged, and abounding with feathers, And lo, this vine hath bent its roots toward him, And its thin shoots it hath sent out toward him, To water it from the furrows of its planting,
(YLT)

Ezekiel 17:22
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the highest branch of the lofty cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young shoots a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and eminent mountain:
(DBY YLT NIV)

Ezekiel 17:23
In a mountain -- the high place of Israel, I plant it, And it hath borne boughs, and yielded fruit, And become a goodly cedar, And dwelt under it have all birds of every wing, In the shade of its thin shoots they dwell.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 19:11
And it hath strong rods for sceptres of rulers, And high is its stature above thick branches, And it appeareth in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 19:14
Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 31:5
Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 31:7
And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 31:9
Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that 'are' in the garden of God.
(YLT)

Ezekiel 31:12
And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.
(YLT)

Daniel 11:7
But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come unto the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.
(See JPS)

Hosea 14:6
His shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

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