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“While men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat…”

Matt 13:25

“While men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat…”

Matt 13:25

‘Tares’

Greek: ZIZANION “darnel”

“While men slept his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat…”

Matt 13:25

“And they shall make an ark of shittim wood…”

Ex 25:10

“And they shall make an ark of shittim wood…”

Ex 25:10

Shittim

Hebrew: SHITTIYM probably “acacia”

“And they shall make an ark of shittim wood…”

Ex 25:10

“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.

They toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Matt 6;28,29

“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.”

Matt 6;28,29

Lily Greek: KRINON lily

“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.”

Matt 6;28,29

Lily Greek: KRINON lilyProbably the ‘Madonna lily’ A wildflower which grows in upper valleys in Galilee and Mt Hermon and flowers in May

“I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.”

Song 2:1

“I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.”

Song 2:1

Lily Hebrew SHOWSHANNAH probably a lily

“I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.”

Song 2:1

Lily Hebrew SHOWSHANNAH Probably the ‘Madonna lily’

“I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.”

Song 2:1

The rose of Sharon

Hibiscus Syriacus

“I am the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys.”

Song 2:1

The rose of Sharon Hebrew CHABATSTSELETH HA SHARON Uncertain… meadow saffron? Sand daffodil?

The rose of Sharon Sand daffodil