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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Tree
• Teil Tree
• Palm Tree
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Trees
• Tree of Life
• Sycamore-Trees
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The Topic Concordance
• Tree of Life
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Trees: & Figs
• Hanged On a Tree, Cursed
• Figs; Tree
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Torrey Topical Textbook
• Trees
• Pomegranate-Tree, the
• Palm-Tree, the
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Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Trees
• Teil-Tree
• Palm-Tree
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Trees
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
• Tree of Life
• Teil Tree
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Sycamine Tree
• Oil Tree
• Mulberry Trees
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Tree of Life
• Tree of Knowledge
• Teil Tree
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Turpentine Tree
• Tree
• Shittah Tree
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tree of Life
• Tree (2)
• Tree
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King James Dictionary
• Tree
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Teil Tree
• Shittim Wood, Shittah Tree
• Shittah Tree
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Tree, Fig
• Fig Tree
• City of Palm Trees
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Tree
• Plane Tree
• Pine Tree
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Sycamore Tree
• Sycamine Tree
• Palm Palm Tree
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Turpentine Tree
• Teil Tree
• Sycamine Tree
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Tree
• Olives, Olive Tree
• Fig Tree
• Tree
Wilson's Bible Types
• Willow (Tree)
• Trees
• Tree
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Webster Dictionary
• Treeing
• Tree Calf
• Tree Burial
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Almond Tree
• Almug Tree
• Apple Tree
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bo-Tree
• Calabash Tree
• Cannon-Ball Tree
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Apple; Apple-Tree
• Axle-Tree
• Bay Tree
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Almond Tree
• Balsam-Tree
• Bay Tree
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Almond-Tree
• Ash-Tree.
• Bay-Tree
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Beerbohm Tree, Herbert
• Bo-Tree
• Breadfruit-Tree
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Box-Tree
• Chestnut-Tree
• Fig and Fig-Tree
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Lexicons
• ܐܺܝܠܳܢܳܐ
• ܕ݁ܶܩܠܶܐ
• ܩܰܝܣܳܐ
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• ἀγριέλαιος
• δένδρον
• ἐλαία
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• אֱגוֹז
• אָהָל אֲהָלוֹת, , אֲהָלִים
• אֶזְרָח
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The two kinds of tree most often mentioned in the Bible are the fruit bearing trees, the fig and the olive (Deuteronomy 8:8; Mark 11:1; Mark 11:3; see FIG; OLIVE). The tree most valued for making buildings and furniture was the cedar. It grew in Lebanon and was the most beautiful, enduring and expensive timber available (Isaiah 2:12-13; Isaiah 10:34; Isaiah 35:2; Isaiah 60:13; see LEBANON). The tabernacle, along with its furniture, was constructed of acacia wood, a timber that was readily available in the Sinai region. Acacia wood, being light, was very suitable for a portable structure such as the tabernacle (Exodus 25:10; Exodus 26:15).

Among the other trees mentioned in the Bible are algum (2 Chronicles 2:8; 2 Chronicles 9:10), cypress (2 Chronicles 2:8), plane (Isaiah 60:13), myrtle (Isaiah 41:19; Nehemiah 8:15), balsam (2 Samuel 5:23), oak (Judges 6:11; 2 Samuel 18:9), willow (Job 40:22; Psalms 137:2), sycamine (Luke 17:6), broom (1 Kings 19:4), lotus (Job 40:22) and palm (Exodus 15:27; Psalms 92:12).