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For plants whose identities are unconfirmed or debated the most probable species is listed first. Plants named in the Old Testament ( Hebrew Bible or Tenakh ) are given with their Hebrew name, while those mentioned in the New Testament are given with their Greek names.
The picture part is the mustard seed that grows into a large plant, the reality part is the kingdom of God, and the point of comparison is the growth of the kingdom from small beginnings. [6] The nesting birds may refer to Old Testament texts which emphasize the universal reach of God's empire, [7] such as Daniel 4:12.
The Parable of the Growing Seed (also called the Seed Growing Secretly) is a parable of Jesus which appears only in Mark 4:26–29. It is a parable about growth in the Kingdom of God. It follows the Parable of the Sower and the Lamp under a bushel, and precedes the Parable of the Mustard Seed.
Some seed falls on the path (wayside) with no soil, some on rocky ground with little soil, some on soil which contains thorns, and some on good soil. In the first case, the seed is taken away; in the second and third soils, the seed fails to produce a crop; but when it falls on good soil, it grows and yields thirty-, sixty-, or a hundred-fold.
Christological plants are among others the vine, the columbine, the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils. Mariological symbols include the rose, lily, olive, cedar, cypress and palm. Plants also appear as attributes of saints, especially virgins and martyrs.
The name "rose of Sharon" is also commonly applied to several horticultural plants, [12] all originating outside the Levant and not likely to have been the plant from the Bible: Hypericum calycinum, the usual plant known by this name in British English. It is an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia. Hibiscus ...
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Alexander and Zhenia Fleisher relate the biblical story of the burning bush to the plant Dictamnus. [20] They write: Intermittently, under yet unclear conditions, the plant excretes such a vast amount of volatiles that lighting a match near the flowers and seedpods causes the plant to be enveloped by flame.