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Credit: Zachi Evenor

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Comments: Israeli Anemones in various colors: red, blue, white and pink.

 

Credit: Zachi Evenor

License: CC BY 2.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Red carpet of Anemone coronaria flowers in Shokeda forest, Israel

 

Anemone. Anemone coronaria. κρίνον, krinon - Strongs: G2918.

From Easton: Lily - The lilies (Gr. krinia) spoken of in the New Testament (Matthew 6:28; Luke 12:27) were probably the scarlet martagon (Lilium Chalcedonicum) or "red Turk's-cap lily", which "comes into flower at the season of the year when our Lord's sermon on the mount is supposed to have been delivered. It is abundant in the district of Galilee; and its fine scarlet flowers render it a very conspicous and showy object, which would naturally attract the attention of the hearers" (Balfour's Plants of the Bible).

Of the true "floral glories of Palestine" the pheasant's eye (Adonis Palestina), the ranunuculus (R. Asiaticus), and the anemone (A coronaria), the last named is however, with the greatest probability regarded as the "lily of the field" to which our Lord refers. "Certainly," says Tristram (Nat. Hist. of the Bible), "if, in the wondrous richness of bloom which characterizes the land of Israel in spring, any one plant can claim pre-eminence, it is the anemone, the most natural flower for our Lord to pluck and seize upon as an illustration, whether walking in the fields or sitting on the hill-side." "The white water-lily (Nymphcea alba) and the yellow water-lily (Nuphar lutea) are both abundant in the marshes of the Upper Jordan, but have no connection with the lily of Scripture."

Verses:

  • 1 Kings 7:19
  • 1 Kings 7:22
  • 2 Chronicles 4:5
  • Hosea 14:5
  • Matthew 6:28
  • Luke 12:27
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​a/anemone.html. 2024.
 
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