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Greek

438. anthos -- a flower
... a flower. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: anthos Phonetic Spelling:
(anth'-os) Short Definition: bloom, flower Definition: bloom, possibly a ...
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262. amarantinos -- unfading
... Cognate: 262 (an adjective, akin to 263 , "unfading") -- properly, the of amaranths
(a flower in antiquity which symbolized ), ie and hence (, used only in 1 ...
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5230. huperakmos -- past the bloom of youth
... From huper and the base of akmen; beyond the "acme", ie Figuratively (of a daughter)
past the bloom (prime) of youth -- + pass the flower of (her) age. ...
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3488. Narkissos -- Narcissus, a Roman
... Narcissus. A flower of the same name, from narke (stupefaction, as a "narcotic");
Narcissus, a Roman -- Narcissus. (narkissou) -- 1 Occurrence. 3487, 3488. ...
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5600. o -- may, might
... etc.; also with ei and its comparative, as well as with other particles) be -- +
appear, are, (may, might, should) be, X have, is, + pass the flower of her age ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6733. tsitsah -- flower
... tsitsah. 6734 . flower. Transliteration: tsitsah Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-tsaw')
Short Definition: flower. ... flower Feminine of tsiyts; a flower -- flower. ...
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6731b. tsits -- a blossom, flower, shining thing
... 6731a, 6731b. tsits. 6732 . a blossom, flower, shining thing.
Transliteration: tsits Short Definition: flower. Word Origin from ...
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7799. shushan -- probably lily (or any lily-like flower)
... probably lily (or any lily-like flower). Transliteration: shushan or shoshan or
shoshannah Phonetic Spelling: (shoo-shan') Short Definition: lily. ...
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5328. nitstsah -- a blossom
... nitstsah. 5329 . a blossom. Transliteration: nitstsah Phonetic Spelling:
(nits-tsaw') Short Definition: flower. ... flower. Feminine of nets; a blossom; --flower. ...
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6525. perach -- a bud, sprout
... Word Origin from parach Definition a bud, sprout NASB Word Usage blossom (3), blossoms
(1), bud (1), buds (1), flower (4), flowers (7). blossom, bud, flower. ...
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6731. tsiyts -- perhaps wings
... 6730, 6731. tsiyts. 6731a . perhaps wings. Transliteration: tsiyts Phonetic
Spelling: (tseets) Short Definition: blossom. blossom, flower, plate, wing ...
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582. enosh -- man, mankind
... scorners* (1), soldiers* (3). another, bloodthirsty, certain, divers, fellow,
in the flower of their age. From 'anash; properly, a ...
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4026. migdal -- a tower
... Word Origin from gadal Definition a tower NASB Word Usage banks (1), podium (1),
Tower (8), tower (23), towers (14), watchtower (2). castle, flower, tower. ...
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5339. nitstsan -- a blossom
... Word Origin from natsats Definition a blossom NASB Word Usage flowers (1). flower.
From nets; a blossom -- flower. see HEBREW nets. 5338, 5339. ...
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1392. gibol -- a bud
... of gabia Definition a bud NASB Word Usage bud (1). bolled. Prolonged from gbiya';
the calyx of a flower -- bolled. see HEBREW gbiya'. 1391, 1392. gibol. 1393 ...
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Library

The Flower
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First LXI THE FLOWER. See [30]Note. ... O that I once
past changing were,. Fast in Thy Paradise, where no flower can wither! ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/lxi the flower.htm

Christ as the Rod, the Flower, the Stone.
... Book I. 41. Christ as the Rod, the Flower, the Stone. Now He receives the
kingdom from the king whom the children of Israel appointed ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/41 christ as the rod.htm

Verse 1. I am the Flower of the Field, and the Lily of the Valleys ...
... CHAPTER II. VERSE 1. I am the flower of the field, and the lily of the
valleys. This, O my God, is a gentle reproach of my Spouse ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/verse 1 i am the.htm

Motto of the Little Flower
... PRAYERS OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE, THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS MOTTO OF THE LITTLE FLOWER.
From St. John of the Cross "LOVE IS REPAID BY LOVE ALONE". ...
//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/motto of the little flower.htm

The Little Flower Enters the Carmel
... CHAPTER VII THE LITTLE FLOWER ENTERS THE CARMEL. Monday, April 9, 1888, being
the Feast of the Annunciation, transferred from Passiontide ...
/.../martin/the story of a soul/chapter vii the little flower.htm

the Little Flower Enters the Carmel
... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX, ENTITLED BY HERSELF: "THE STORY OF
THE SPRINGTIME OF A LITTLE WHITE FLOWER" CHAPTER VII - THE LITTLE FLOWER ...
//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/chapter vii - the little.htm

Modesty, the Flower of Manners
... Chapter I. Modesty, the flower of manners. [701] Modesty, the flower of
manners , the honour of our bodies, the grace of the sexes ...
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Soeur Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower of Jesus
... SOEUR THERESE OF LISIEUX, THE LITTLE FLOWER OF JESUS. A NEW AND COMPLETE
TRANSLATION OF L'HISTOIRE D'UNE AME, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ...
/.../martin/the story of a soul/soeur therese of lisieux the.htm

1875-1877. Mrs. Way's Sewing --Class for Jewesses --Bible Flower ...
... Mrs. Way's sewing"class for Jewesses"Bible Flower Mission"George Clarice"Incidents
in home work"The Lord's Day"Diary at sea" Letters of cheer ...
//christianbookshelf.org/lowe/gods answers/chapter vi 1875-1877 mrs ways.htm

Counsels and Reminiscences of Soeur Therese, the Little Flower of ...
... THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOEUR THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX, ENTITLED BY HERSELF: "THE STORY OF
THE SPRINGTIME OF A LITTLE WHITE FLOWER" COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES OF ...
/.../therese/story of a soul/counsels and reminiscences of soeur.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

2. (n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether enclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Corolla.

3. (n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.

4. (n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.

5. (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulfur.

6. (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

7. (n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.

8. (n.) Menstrual discharges.

9. (v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.

10. (v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.

11. (v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.

12. (v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.

13. (v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

Thesaurus

Flower (33 Occurrences)
... A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and
two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. ...Flower (33 Occurrences). ...
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Lily-flower (1 Occurrence)
Lily-flower. Lily-blossoms, Lily-flower. Lilywork . Multi-Version
Concordance Lily-flower (1 Occurrence). Song of Songs ...
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Smelling-flower (1 Occurrence)
Smelling-flower. Smelling, Smelling-flower. Smells . Multi-Version
Concordance Smelling-flower (1 Occurrence). Song ...
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Bud (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the
rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower. ...
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Withers (20 Occurrences)
... James 1:11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and
the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. ...
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Lily (9 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Blossoms (16 Occurrences)
... Exodus 25:33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower;
and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a ...
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Flowers (42 Occurrences)
... FLOWERS. flou'-erz (BLOOM, BLOSSOM, etc.): (1) gibh`ol, literally, "a small cup,"
hence, calyx or corolla of a flower (Exodus 9:31, "The flax was in bloom"). ...
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Withereth (13 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Withereth (13 Occurrences). 1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh
is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. ...
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Blossom (23 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their
appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as ...
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Bible Concordance

Flower (33 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

James 1:10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

James 1:11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Peter 1:24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 9:31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.
(BBE YLT)

Exodus 25:33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 25:34 and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 28:36 And thou hast made a flower of pure gold, and hast opened on it -- openings of a signet -- 'Holy to Jehovah;'
(YLT)

Exodus 37:19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 37:20 In the lampstand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 39:30 And they make the flower of the holy crown of pure gold, and write on it a writing, openings of a signet, 'Holy to Jehovah;'
(YLT)

Leviticus 8:9 and doth put the mitre on his head, and doth put on the mitre, over-against its front, the golden flower of the holy crown, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
(YLT)

Numbers 8:4 This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 2:33 The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS)

1 Kings 7:24 And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.
(BBE)

1 Kings 7:26 It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 4:5 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)

Job 8:12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
(See RSV)

Job 14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS)

Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
(BBE)

Song of Songs 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
(BBE)

Song of Songs 6:11 I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE)

Song of Songs 7:12 Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE YLT)

Isaiah 5:24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
(BBE YLT NIV)

Isaiah 18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 28:4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nahum 1:4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Flower

Flower of Sharon

Related Terms

Lily-flower (1 Occurrence)

Smelling-flower (1 Occurrence)

Bud (23 Occurrences)

Withers (20 Occurrences)

Lily (9 Occurrences)

Blossoms (16 Occurrences)

Flowers (42 Occurrences)

Withereth (13 Occurrences)