Did the dogwood tree have a different name in biblical times?
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In the one story I know about the Dogwood tree was called by the modern name.  However in the story after the large, strong Dogwood found out that it's wood had been used to cruxify Christ it was so ashamed the tree stopped growing big and strong and began to be the small flexible tree it is now and grows flowers in the spring that resemble a white cross with a small blood stain in the center where the crown of thorns would have been on Christs head.  The flower was to honor Christ.  \nSo it is possible the name changed when the tree "suppossedly" changed its form.
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yea it actually says gopher wood in the bible.... it is in Genesis 6:14.... we call it Cypress now but religious theorists don't believe that the gopher wood is still in existence due to the flood. he he hope that helps!
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In the 7th century a monk from Crediton, Devonshire, went to Germany to teach the Word of God. He did many good works there, and spent much time in Thuringia, an area which was to become the cradle of the Christmas Decoration Industry.\n\nLegend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The converted people began to revere the Fir tree as God's Tree, as they had previously revered the Oak. By the 12th century it was being hung, upside-down, from ceilings at Christmastime in Central Europe, as a symbol of Christianity.\n\nThe first decorated tree was at Riga in Latvia, in 1510. In the early 16th century, Martin Luther is said to have decorated a small Christmas Tree with candles, to show his children how the stars twinkled through the dark night.
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Of what this huge ark was to be built was made plain by Jehovah:  “Make for yourself an ark out of wood of a resinous tree [literally, trees of gopher].”  (Genesis 6:14)  This resinous wood here prescribed is thought by some to be cypress or a similar tree.  In that part of the world what today is called cypress was in abundant supply; it was particularly favored for shipbuilding by the Phoenicians and by Alexander the Great, as it is even down to the present time; and it is especially resistant to water and decay.  Doors and posts made of cypress are reported to have lasted 1,100 years.  In addition, Noah was told not merely to caulk the seams but to “cover [the ark] inside and outside with tar.”
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bristlecone pines have around 4,600 tree-rings and are still the world's oldest living organisms. (Bristlecone pines are native to the Rocky Mountains of the United States.)\n\nBUT, maybe its not since.. \nOn a wild Tasmanian mountain there is a magnificent, recently discovered stand of Huon pine trees that has been called the world's 'oldest known living organism'. \nIt is hard to see how a tree could be older than the time since the biblical Flood, so if its published age of ,more than 10,500 years old' were correct, then this would present a serious challenge to Old Testament chronology. In fact, some media reports claim the tree 'could be 30,000 or 40,000 years old'.
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THE POOR RAISED UP OUT OF THE DUST, AND THE BEGGAR LIFTED UP FROM THE DUNGHILL (Part 1)\nPreached at Eden Street Chapel, Hampstead Road, on Lord’s Day Morning, August 20, 1843.\n"He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s and he hath set the world upon them."- 1Sa 2:8\nMOST of you are probably familiar, not only with the name of the person who uttered these words, but also with the circumstances under which they were spoken by her. But lest any should not immediately recollect the passage, I will just observe that they are the words of Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel, and that the circumstances under which they were spoken, were when she brought her infant son, and presented him before the Lord, that he might be his for ever. Her heart, it appears, was then so enlarged, and her soul so comforted and strengthened by beholding her infant son as the manifested answer to her prayers, that she burst forth into that song of thanksgiving of which the text forms a portion.\n\nBut before I enter into the experimental meaning of the text, it may be desirable, with God’s blessing, to trace out a few leading particulars of Hannah’s case.\n\nI believe, that, in Scripture, there are typical characters, as well as what are more properly called "types", or typical things; and Hannah appears to me to have been one of these typical characters. By typical characters, in this sense, I mean, not in the same way as Aaron, or Solomon, were types of Christ, but certain persons whose history and experience are typical or representative of God’s dealings with his people, or of characters that should arise in the church. The history of Hannah affords us more than one instance of these typical characters. We read, for instance, 1Sa 1:1,2 that "Elkanah had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children." Elkanah seems to me to typify the Lord Jesus-I think we may fairly assume this without doing violence to the figure; and his two wives seem to represent the church, Peninnah the professing, and Hannah the possessing church. Let us see if the figure will bear us out in this interpretation. Peninnah, in type, represents the professing church. As having a form of godliness, and a name to live, she had a vast superiority outwardly over her rival, for she was fruitful, whilst Hannah was barren. This points out the superiority, in outward fruit, which many professors have over God’s spiritually-taught children. But we may observe that in Peninnah’s fruitfullness there was nothing manifested of a supernatural character. She had children in the common course of nature, as other married women have them; there was nothing peculiarly providential, nothing eminently striking, nothing miraculous; but all took place in the usual course.\n\nNow this strikingly represents the way in which mere professors of religion bring forth their good works. The fruits they produce are not wrought in them by miracle; they do not spring out of a supernatural operation upon their consciences; but they are brought forth, from time to time, in the mere course of nature, without any galling disappointment on account of previous barrenness, without any earnest cry that the Lord would work powerfully in their soul, without any manifested answer to the prayer that he would make them fruitful in every good word and work. But these good works and religious performances, on which they pride themselves so highly, are brought forth by them in the usual course of nature, by the mere exertion of the creature, utterly independent of any work of the Holy Ghost upon their heart.\n\nBut this fruitfullness of Peninnah much galled and pained her barren rival, as the zeal, devotedness, piety and amiability, evide
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, “the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah”! John is familiar with the prophecy that Jacob, ancestor of the Jewish race, pronounced concerning his fourth son, Judah: “A lion cub Judah is. From the prey, my son, you will certainly go up. He bowed down, he stretched himself out like a lion and, like a lion, who dares rouse him? The scepter will not turn aside from Judah, neither the commander’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to him the obedience of the peoples will belong.” (Genesis 49:9, 10) The royal line of God’s people stemmed from Judah. Starting with David, all the kings who ruled in Jerusalem until the Babylonians destroyed that city were Judah’s descendants. But not one of them was the Shiloh prophesied by Jacob. Shiloh means “He Whose [Right] It Is.” Prophetically, this name pointed to Jesus, the one to whom the Davidic Kingdom now permanently belongs.—Ezekiel 21:25-27; Luke 1:32, 33; \n\nJohn quickly recognizes the reference to “the root of David.” The promised Messiah is prophetically called both “a twig out of the stump of Jesse [father of King David] . . . a sprout” and “the root of Jesse that will be standing up as a signal for the peoples.” (Isaiah 11:1, 10) Jesus was a twig of Jesse, being born into the royal line of David, son of Jesse. Further, as a root of Jesse, he was the One that caused the Davidic dynasty to sprout again, giving it life and sustenance forever.—2 Samuel 7:16.
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These were figurative and not literal representations.\n In Genesis...\nGen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? \nSatan is represented as a serpent (snake) here..alludes to his sneaky nature and the poison which he spreads..\n\nIn Nehemiah..\nNeh 2:13  And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well...\nthe word translated in from Hebrew to mean dragon actually means...sea serpent or jackal\n\nIn Revelations...\nRev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, \n\nThe word used for dragon, here, means...(from Strong's greek and hebrew Dictionaries)\n"a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate)"\n\nThe Bible is not endorsing the idea of a literal flying, firebreathing reptile. It is symbolism..so that only the "chosen" would understand.\n\nHere's an example:\n(Rev 17:7)  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.\n\n(Rev 17:8)  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.\n(Rev 17:9)  And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.\n(Rev 17:10)  And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.\n(Rev 17:11)  And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.\n(Rev 17:12)  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.\n(Rev 17:13)  These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.\n(Rev 17:14)  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
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Not to be confused by the 8 branched Channukia (that is different). You are asking about the Menorah, which was commanded to be built by God during the wilderness wandering in the Sinai desert. Yes it is mentioned in the Torah because it was one of the major pieces of furniture in the Tabernacle. \n\nThis lampstand was fashioned by taking pure gold and beating it to form almond branches and bowls. Olive oil was poured in these bowls as fuel for the lamp wicks. This was the only source of light in the Holy place. (the light in the holy of holies was provided by the Shekinah of God)\n\nThe center "vine" represents Messiah. Yeshua said, "I am the vine, you are the branches." as well as... "I am the Light of the world." I did a study on the Tabernacle and how each piece of furniture parallels each of the Jewish feasts as well as prophetic events if you are interested.
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Beth is correct about what dictionary.com says.  But the entry does not say anything about how that Old English word came about.  But if you look the word up in the Oxford English Dicionary, the very first example given is a citation of Genesis 9:13 from the year 1000.\n\nThat is, the earliest attested use in English is indeed the Biblical use.\n\nWhy a BOW? In the story of Genesis 9, God is speaking immediately after Noah's Flood and promising that he will never send another flood to destroy the whole earth.  He announces the rainbow as a sign of this solemn promise ("covenant"):\n\nGen 9:12-16  And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: \nI have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." \n\nThe image is simply this -- God has been 'waging war'** against rebellious humanity.  The bow is an image of making war.  But now God says he will set aside his bow, and not use it (and he'll put it where all can see --including HIM-- that he has set it aside!\n\n**The Bible speaks in several places of God's "arrows". These can be various sorts of judgments: famine, calamity, pestilence, illness (Deteronomy 32:23-24, Ezekiel 5:16, Psalm 38:2-3). In some cases 'arrows' stands for lightning bolts (Psalms 18:14, 144:6)\n\n(There are other examples of "signs" of covenants and treaties in the Bible and the surrounding countries of the Ancient Near East.   These signs function as a VISIBLE reminder to the parties of the promise they have made and/or of some curse or judgment they wish on whoever breaks their covenant promise.  In fact, the idea of "signs of the covenant" comes over into Christianity in the "Lord's Supper" [or 'Eucharist] where the bread and wine are presented as the body and blood of Christ, signs of the "new covenant" Jesus made.)
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the hickory tree(named by the spainish)
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History\nThe Christmas tree is often explained as a Christianization of the ancient pagan idea that the evergreen tree represents a celebration of the renewal of life. In Roman mosaics from what is today Tunisia, showing the mythic triumphant return from India of the Greek god of wine and male fertility, Dionysus (dubbed by some modern scholars as a life-death-rebirth deity), the god carries a tapering coniferous tree. Medieval legends, nevertheless, tended to concentrate more on the miraculous "flowering" of trees at Christmastime. A branch of flowering Glastonbury thorn is still sent annually for the Queen's Christmas table in the United Kingdom.\n\n \nTaiwanese aboriginals, tutored by Christian missionaries, celebrate with trees (Cunninghamia lanceolata) outside their homes.Among early Germanic tribes the Yule tradition was celebrated by sacrificing male animals, and slaves, by suspending them on the branches of trees. According to Adam of Bremen, in Scandinavia the pagan kings sacrificed nine males of each species at the sacred groves every ninth year. According to one legend, Saint Boniface attempted to introduce the idea of trinity to the pagan tribes using the cone-shaped evergreen trees because of their triangular appearance.
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Solomon had a "ménage a mille" (yes, 1,000 between wives & concubines). That was one busy King of Israel, huh! I bet more than gardens were hanging. It was quite the thing back then if you had the wherewithall.
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Hmm. Which account of creation do you mean, the one in Genesis chapter one or the other one in chapter two?\n\n The "chapter one version" does not say either way.\n\n The "chapter two version" says man was created from dust, it  also says women were made from ribs.\n\n Mmmmmm.. Ribs are tasty.\n\n The answer is that the second account of creation in the bible evolved from the first account. It is certainly more creative and detailed fiction, than it's ancestor.
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The tree of knowledge, which contained fruit of some kind with a serpent wrapped around it's branches. That's how I'd know it was refering to the garden of eden.
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dog woods. my grandma had some. she said the stripes are the blood from jesus crist since they made his cross out of dogwood she is very religious
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Apparently not. Sodom and Gomorrah were destoyed between verses 22 and 30.\n\nGenesis 19:21-22, 30\n21 He said to him, "Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken. \n22 "Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar. \n\n30 Lot went up from Zoar, and stayed in the mountains, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters. \n\nI suppose it could be argued that Lot left Zoar from fear that it too would be destoyed, but there is no clear indication of this, and there are some major problems with this assumption.\n1) Lot was promised that Zoar would be spared.\n2) There is no clear indication WHAT Lot was afraid of (He could also have been afraid of the people of Zoar, or of any number of other things.)\n3) Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed WHILE Lot was in Zoar.\n4) The name chage to Zoar. Prior to this, the name of the town was Bela (destruction,) (Gen. 14:2,8), after this, it was called Zoar (little, of no importance).