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1821 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Curse.6
Jesus commands His disciples, "Bless them that curse you" ( Luke 6:28; compare Romans 12:14 ). He Himself cursed the fruitless fig tree ( Mark 11:21 )--a symbol of the doom of a fruitless people.
1822 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eden.3
… the fig tree indigenous ( Joel 3:7 ), and where it was watered by irrigation. All kinds of animals, including cattle, beasts of the field and birds, were found there …
1823 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eschatology of the New Testament, I-V.31
… the Fig Tree and the solemn assurance appended that it will happen in this generation ( Mark 13:28 - 31 ); secondly, the true attitude toward the parousia is defined …
1824 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.1
Fig, Fig-tree
1825 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.2
Fig, Fig-tree - fig'-tre (te'enah, plural te'enim, specially "figs"; paggim, "green figs" only in Song of Solomon 2:13; suke, "fig-tree," sukon, "fig"):
1826 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.3
… of fig-trees can bear profitably. Plenitude of fruitful vines and fig-trees, specially individual ownership, thus came to be emblematical of long-continued …
1827 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.4
… -tree, the sycamore fig and other useful plants. Fig-trees are cultivated all over the Holy Land, especially in the mountain regions. Wild fig-trees--usually …
1828 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.5
Fig-trees are usually of medium height, 10 or 15 ft. for full-grown trees, yet individual specimens sometimes attain as much as 25 ft. The summer foliage is thick …
1829 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.6
3. Figs: The fruit of the fig-tree is peculiar. The floral axis, instead of expanding outward, as with most flowers, closes, as the flower develops, upon the small …
1830 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.7
… December, fig-trees in the mountainous regions of Palestine have shed all their leaves, and they remain bare until about the end of March, when they commence …
1831 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.9
The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs" (paggim)
1832 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.11
… no figs at all are to be found on the tree, but with the best varieties of fig-trees a certain proportion of the early crop of figs remains on the tree, and this …
1833 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fig, Fig-tree.12
… , every fig-tree which is going to bear fruit at all will have some taksh ("immature figs") upon it, even though "the time of figs" ( Mark 11:13 the King James Version), i.e …
1834 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Figure.2
Figure - fig'-ur, fig'-yur (cemel, cemel; tupos): The translation of cemel, or cemel, "a likeness or image"; perhaps a transposition of tselem, the usual word for likeness …
1835 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.17
… trees for food." They doubtless found such trees in the goodly land in abundance, but in the natural course of things needed to plant more. Many olive trees remain …
1836 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.18
… , dried figs were most extensively used. When pressed in a mold they formed the "cakes of figs" (debhelah) mentioned in the Old Testament ( 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Chronicles …
1837 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.19
… the fig (compare "every man under his vine and under his fig-tree," 1 Kings 4:25 ). Like the olive, the fig, and the date-palm, grapes are indigenous to Syria, the soil and …
1838 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gather.5
… sycomore-trees" ("a nipper of sycomore figs, i.e. helping to cultivate a sort of figs or mulberries produced by the real sycamore tree" (used only by the poorest …
1839 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Halicarnassus.2
… of fig, orange, lemon, olive and almond trees. When the ancient country fell into the possession of the Persians, the kings of Caria were still permitted to rule …
1840 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. James, Epistle of.38
… ), the fig trees and the olive trees and the vines (3:12), the seed-sowing and the fruit-bearing (3:18), the morning mist immediately lost to view (4:14), the early and the …