Trees and Bushes of the Holy Land

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Fig Tree

Ficus Carica

(Te’ena)

The first tree in the Bible (Genesis 3 7): “…and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons”.

Appears many times pairing with grape:

Isaiah 34 4 (NASB version): “As a leaf withers from the vine, or as one withers from the fig tree“

Migdal-Malcha

Madrasah

Sochoh

Olive tree

Olea

(Za’yit)

Numerous references –

Genesis 8:11:”And the dove came in to him … in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off”

Psalms 52 8: “But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever”.

Kh. Beza

Gethsemane

Mt. Olives

Kisson

Siah Brook

Arabian Jujube tree

Ziziphus

Spina-christi

“Christ Thorn”

(sheisaf matsui)

Matthew 27: 29: “And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head…”

Emmaus

Fazael

Lachish

Biblical Tamar

White Acacia

Acacia

Albida

(Shittah Malbinah)

A rare tree in the north, but common in the desert.

Isaiah 41:19:” I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:”

Shimron

Elah Valley

Carob

Ceratonia

Siliqua

(Harub)

Only indirect reference:

Isaiah 1:19: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land”

Oren Caves

Fachir

Palm tree

Phoenix

Dactylifera

(Tamar Matsui)

Psalms 92:12: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree“

Song 7:7: “This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes”

Megiddo

Ubeidiya

Mexican Palm

Washingtonia

Robusta

(Dekel)

Qarta

Fichus

Sycamore

Fichus

(Ficus)

Achziv

Gall oak

Quercus

Ithaburensis

(Alon Tabor)

Judges 10:3: “And thou shalt go on forward from thence, and shalt come to the oak of Tabor“

Judges 6 11:”And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah”

K. Hannania

Beth Lehem Galilee

Tell Dan

High Place

Palestine oak

Quercus

calliprinos

(Alon

Matsui).

Horvat Dur

Atlantic

Pistachio

Anacardiaceae

Pistaci

(Elah Atlantit)

Note – In KJV Bible, the Hebrew “Elah” was translated as “oak” –

2 Samuel 18:9: “And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak…”

Usha

Nahalal

Elah Valley

Triplet

Holy tree

The Holy tree, according to the tradition and the local paintings in the Monastery, was based on a triplet seeding (olive + cypress + cedar) that Abraham gave to Lot.

Cross-

monastery

Funeral Cypress

Cupressus

Sempervirens

aka: Fir tree

(Brosh Matsui)

Isaiah 44:14: “He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.”

Tabor Greek

Pine tree

Pinus

Halepensis

(Oren Yerushalmi)

Isaiah 44:14 (Darby): “he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh [it] grow.”

Kh. Oren

Palestine oak

Quercus

calliprinos

(Alon Matsui).

Horvat Dur

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus

Camaldulensis

Ein-Dor

Cactus

Opuntia

Ficus-indica

Ein-Dor

Kanaf

Nahalal

Qula

Tamarix

Aphylla

Eshel

Genesis 21:33: “And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God”.

Nitzana

Abraham’s well

Abraham’s balm

Vitex Agnus-

Castus

(Abraham’s bush)

Chastetree

Genesis 22:14: “And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son”.

Tel Issachar

Terebinth

Pistacia

Palaestina

(Elah)

Note – In KJV Bible, the Hebrew “Elah” was translated as “oak”

2 Samuel 18:9: “And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak…”

Elah Valley

Adullam

Sochoh

HemetCistern

Dwarf Mesquite

Prosopis

farcta

(Yanbut Hasadeh)

Isaiah 7:19: “And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes”.

Ubeidiya