Trees of the Bible

The Bible is an historic record of real things, people and places. Learn about the trees mentioned in this great book.

See: Places, people & events associated with trees

A

• Abies cilicica
• acacia
• algum
• almond
• almug
• aloes
• apple
• ash
• ashur tree
• Aquilaria agallochum

B

• balm source
• Balm of Gilead
• bay tree
• bdellium source
• Boswellia
• box tree
• branches

C

• camphire
• cassia
• cedar
• chestnut tree
• cinnamon
• cypress

D

• date trees

E

• ebony
• elm
• Wood of Ephraim

F

• fig
• fir
• flowers
• forest
• frankincense—resin from Boswellia serrata or thurifera
• fruit

G

• Gilead, Balm of
• goodly trees
• gopher
• graft

H

• hazel
• heath
• husk—carob tree

J

L

• leaf, leaves
• lign-aloes

M

• mulberry
• myrrh
• myrtle

N

• naughty figs
• nuts

O

• oak
• oil-tree
• olive
• olive-tree

P

• palm tree
• palm tree prickle —such as is found on the shoots
• pine tree
• plane tree
• pomegranate
• poplar

S

• shittah-tree
• sycamine tree
• sycamore

T

• teil tree
• terebinth
• thorn
• thyine wood
• tow
• Tree of Life
• Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

W

• willows
• wood
• Wood of Ephraim
• wormwood

Tree-related places, events and people

• One-third of Earth’s trees will be burned up at one event during the Great Tribuation. This was foreseen by the Apostle John in Revelation 8:7—“The first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up” (NASB).

• Adam and Eve—ate the fruit of a forbidden tree

• Abraham—pitched his tent under a famous oak or terebinh tree in Hebron / met with 2 angels and the LORD under an oak tree

• Amos (a dresser of sycamore trees

• Baal-tamar

• behemoth—had a tail like a cedar tree

• booth—made from tree branches

• cherub—protected the tree of life

• Deborah—sat under a palm tree as a judge

• Eden

• Elijah—sat down in despondency under a juniper tree and was touched by an angel

• Elim

• fiery serpents

• forest

• gallows

• gardens

• Gethsemane

• grove

• Jesus Christ—crucified on a tree (a cross made of logs)

• Hareth

• Hiram—sent cedar and fir trees to Solomon

• honey

• Jericho—city of palm trees

• Jotham—fable about him, in which the trees are spoken of as choosing a king—Judges 9:8-15

• Mamre—oak grove where Abraham dwelled

• Mount of Olives

• King Saul—had his headquarters under a pomegranate tree at Migron

• The Second Temple—numerous trees planted in the courts of the Lord

• King Solomon—imported cedars from Lebanon

• Feast of Tabernacles

• tree worship

• Wood of Ephraim

• Zacchaeus—climbed a sycamore tree to watch Jesus Christ