The word in Scripture

Tree in the Bible

The word tree appears 201 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A tree pictures rootedness, life, and flourishing. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What tree means in the Bible

A tree pictures rootedness, life, and flourishing.

Where the word tree appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word tree appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.”Psalms 37:35

“But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.”Psalms 52:8

“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”Matthew 7:17

“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:”Matthew 24:32

“For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.”Luke 6:43

“Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.”John 1:48

“And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;”Romans 11:17

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”1 Peter 2:24