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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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TREE, n.
1. The general name of the largest of the vegetable kind, consisting of a firm woody stem springing from woody roots, and spreading above into branches which terminate in leaves. A tree differs from a shrub principally in size, many species of trees growing to the highth of fifty or sixty feet, and some species to seventy or eighty, and a few, particularly the pine, to a much greater highth.
Trees are of various kinds as nuciferous, or nut-bearing trees bacciferous, or berry-bearing coniferous, or cone-bearing, &c. Some are forest-trees, and useful for timber or fuel others are fruit trees, and cultivated in gardens and orchards others are used chiefly for shade and ornament.
2. Something resembling a tree, consisting of a stem or stalk and branches as a genealogical tree.
3. In ship-building, pieces of timber are called chess-trees, cross-trees, roof-trees, tressel-trees, &c.
4. In Scripture, a cross.
--Jesus, whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Acts 10
5. Wood.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Tree'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​t/tree.html.
Entry for 'Tree'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​t/tree.html.