TREES
(See also Conservation; Forests; Plants; Tree[s] of Life; Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad)
(Note centered heading below: List by Name)
accidents related to: g85 5/22 31
Africa: g75 2/8 21-22
age: ce 149; ts 23, 25; g74 3/22 26; w73 82-84; g72 4/8 12; g70 10/8 3; g57 2/8 24; g55 8/8 19; g48 7/22 27; g46 11/8 15-16; g44 6/7 22
longevity illustrative: w73 85
Amazon rain forest: g79 11/22 22
antipollution role: g83 1/22 30
autumn leaves: g76 11/8 12-14; g58 10/8 21-23; g46 10/22 12-13
benefits: g85 7/8 22-23; g80 6/22 24; g76 12/22 20, 24; g75 2/8 23; g73 6/8 9-10; g71 5/8 22; g68 7/22 27; g63 3/22 20-23; g62 8/22 15; g56 4/8 13-15
value of services rendered by a tree: g83 9/22 27
bonsai: g81 3/8 26-28; g79 2/8 25
Brazil:
royal garden: g57 6/22 20
care: g60 3/8 18-19; g58 7/22 21-23; g48 7/22 27
China:
wall of trees: g80 9/8 29
Christmas:
dispute in Federal Republic of Germany (West) over environmental impact of cutting: g85 4/22 31
circulatory system: ce 146-147; g55 8/8 18
cold-weather trees: w75 715
desert reclamation: g77 7/22 29; g75 7/22 29
discussion: g85 7/8 22-24; g77 9/22 26; g73 6/8 9-11; ad 1613-1614; g71 5/8 20-22
Dutch elm disease: g83 11/22 30; g80 11/8 30; g79 7/22 21-23; g76 2/8 30
dwarf: g81 3/8 26-28; g79 2/8 25; g71 6/8 15-16; g60 3/8 19-20; g58 7/22 22-23
evidence of Creator: ce 146-147, 149-151; w76 579-581
Flood survival: w73 84-85
forests: g84 1/22 11-14; g78 9/8 9-12; g76 3/22 23-26; g74 7/8 25-26; g73 6/8 9-11; g72 7/8 29; ad 600; g62 7/22 17-19; g59 9/8 17; g57 8/8 23; g56 4/8 13-15; g48 7/22 27; g44 10/11 14; g30 9/17 815-820
reforestation: g76 3/22 24-25
“timber rustlers”: g80 8/22 29
value of controlled forest fires: g78 9/8 11-12
France: g70 8/22 30
fruit: g78 8/8 13-15; lp 88-89; g77 7/22 14-16; g76 3/8 24-25; g75 2/22 31; g73 9/22 21-23; w71 325; g65 6/22 23; g60 3/8 17-20; g54 9/22 16; nh 47-48
grafting: ad 681
Greek word: w57 166; w50 456; bi7-50 768-771; g41 1/22 19
growth: w76 579-581; g57 9/22 3; g55 8/8 17-19
kinds: g71 5/8 20; g70 10/8 16
number of: w83 11/15 7; g55 8/8 17; g55 12/8 19
largest: ce 149; g85 8/8 13; g74 3/22 24-26
leaves in homemaking: g57 12/22 16
logging: g71 12/22 17-19
lumberjacks: g73 12/8 31
nut trees: ad 1236-1237
olive tree (Ro 11): w84 9/1 9-11; w84 9/15 11-13; w83 8/15 14-24; w82 2/15 23-24; w80 7/15 24; w59 338; w58 151-157; w45 131-140
branches: w83 8/15 16-18, 20-22; w58 152-154; w45 134-139, 374
differs from vine of John 15: w76 31-32
grafting from wild olive tree: w83 8/15 16-18; w59 338; w58 154-156; w45 135-136
root: w83 8/15 16; w59 338; w58 153; w45 134-135
tree as a whole: w83 8/15 17; w58 156; w45 134-135
trunk: w83 8/15 16; w59 338; w58 152; w45 134
orchards: g60 3/8 17-20
paper manufacturing: g85 11/8 22-24; g63 3/22 21-22; g60 3/22 13-16; g57 8/22 8; g47 6/8 20-24; g32 10/26 49-52
Papua New Guinea: g85 5/22 31; g77 5/22 9-10
pests:
gypsy moth: g85 4/22 22-23
planting: g71 7/22 30; g64 1/8 29; g60 3/8 17-18; g58 7/22 22-23; g38 4/6 22
pollination: g71 5/22 20
preventing deer from feeding on tree seedlings: g83 10/8 31
products from: g85 7/8 22-24; g74 11/8 23
resinous tree: ad 1392
root pressure: ce 146-147; w53 452
sap resembling diesel fuel: g79 11/22 29
seeds: ce 149; g85 8/8 13; g71 5/8 21
soil conservation: g63 3/22 21
stump processing: g74 11/8 23
superstitions: g62 8/22 12-15
symbolic:
“a third of the trees was burned up” (Re 8:7): fm 215-217; w39 46
“big trees of righteousness” (Isa 61:3): w84 5/15 21; w78 7/1 20-21, 27-28; pm 302-303; w49 311; w42 298; w35 107-108, 168; w33 250; pp 76; lt-2-30 258
“cedar in Lebanon” (Eze 31:3): w77 300-314; w30 231-232
‘cedars of Lebanon,’ “massive trees of Bashan” (Zec 11:1-3): pm 303-305; pp 189-191
‘do not harm the trees’ (Re 7:3): w48 361; w38 302
“fruit-bearing tree” (Ge 49:22): w62 405
Jesus’ parable of the fig tree (Lu 13:6-9): w83 8/15 19-20; w79 9/15 16-18; w53 455-456; w52 228
Jotham’s parable (Jg 9): w78 12/15 16-17; w77 647; w44 174-175; w35 83-90, 99-108
“king of Babylon” (Isa 14:4, 9-20): w65 86
known by their fruit (Mt 7:17-19): w79 7/1 23-24; cj 120; w78 11/15 30-31; w64 526; w58 152; w51 677; w48 285; w41 269; w37 216; w30 197-198
majestic cedar (Eze 17:23): w77 455; g65 12/22 8; v-1 232-233
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream tree (Da 4): w84 4/1 3-4, 7; w83 8/1 20-21; w82 5/1 14-15; w79 10/1 31; w78 3/1 25; go 72-89, 104-106; po 175-177; ts 152-163; ad 95-96; w69 301-302; w67 613-616; w64 757-760; bf 175-177; g60 3/22 5-7; w59 213-215, 704; yw 96-98; tf 232-241; w34 36-42, 51-59; g34 3/28 410-414
“on the bank of the torrent” (Eze 47:7, 12): kj 392, 396-398; w60 441; sr55 308-309; v-3 316-317, 323-325
“palm-tree figures” (Eze 40:16, 22, 26, 31, 34, 37): v-3 197-198
‘rejecting every tree’ (Eze 21:10): w72 765
“those tall in growth” (Isa 10:33): sl 171-172
two olive trees (Zec 4): pm 203-207; w38 286-287; w33 248-250; pp 74-76
two olive trees (Re 11:4): pm 205; fm 265-267; w35 100; pp 66; lt-1-30 190-192
taxed in Palestine: ad 817, 1614; w58 151-152; w52 228; w45 134
“tree of life” (Ge 2:9): hp 113; g77 2/22 28; ts 17; g70 3/22 17-20; im 179; w64 191; w61 682; ns 32; w59 84, 90; yw 62; g57 6/8 25-26; nh 72; el 279, 285; w49 180-181, 189; g44 5/10 16-17; tf 77-78; ci 359; w40 93; w32 219-220
“tree of the knowledge of good and bad” (Ge 2:17): uw 39, 56; w80 6/1 28-29; w79 3/1 31; lp 51-53, 57; po 56; ts 31; g72 4/8 27-28
comment of The Jerusalem Bible: w85 6/1 5
food did not cause death: lp 57; ts 31; ns 36, 38; w59 89-90; yw 58-59; w56 159, 607; w55 572; w54 245; nh 72-73; w49 181
prohibition by God: uw 39; tr 28-29; g74 10/8 11-12; ad 483; w68 474, 476, 613-614; g67 3/22 28-29; ns 29, 36; g61 5/8 27; w59 89-90, 260; pa 27-29; yw 60-61; w57 661; g57 6/8 25; g56 8/22 26; nh 73; w52 630; w51 63; g51 2/8 25; wl 20
sense of ‘knowing good and bad’: w85 6/1 5; tr 29; ad 1537, 1613-1614; w68 614, 621; rl 14; g61 5/8 28
touching: uw 39; w59 704; w54 245
tree-ring chronology: g72 4/8 5, 11-15, 17-19
tropics: g72 3/8 26
unusual: g63 4/8 11
worship: g69 1/8 23; g69 12/22 7; g57 8/8 21-22; w55 383; g55 6/8 21-24
List by Name
acacia: ce 145; g78 4/8 30-31; g76 9/22 15; ad 27
algum (almug): ad 56
almond: w77 93; w77 759; ad 55-56; w67 204
aloe: ad 56
apple: g78 7/22 30; g73 9/22 21-23; ad 94; g71 5/22 19; g68 8/8 20-23; w67 383
life span: g78 7/22 30
ash: ad 142
mountain ash: g55 5/8 20
babassu: g44 10/11 14
balsam: w80 10/1 11; ad 184; w66 382
bamboo: w76 581; g71 5/8 11
banana: g72 9/8 21
banyan: g77 9/22 26; g60 12/22 17; g55 12/8 19
baobab: g78 7/22 25; g75 2/8 22; w73 82; g73 6/8 11; g55 12/8 18
black mulberry: ad 238
bo (bodhi): w73 83
bottle tree (drunken pole): g60 9/8 12
brazilwood: g57 6/22 20; g51 8/22 20
broom tree: ad 262
cacao: g63 2/8 24-26; g50 8/8 27-28
caprifig: g66 8/22 10
carob: ad 300-301; g66 9/22 11; g63 2/22 25
cashew: g64 1/22 22
cedar: g78 12/8 24-26; g77 3/8 10-11; w75 541; ad 303-304; g71 5/8 21; mg63 87; g48 3/22 23; w34 35
ceiba (kapok): g71 5/8 11; g55 12/8 18
cherry: g79 4/8 27
cinchona: g76 11/8 9-11; g64 12/22 17
coconut: g78 4/8 6-7; g76 12/22 24; g71 5/8 11; g71 6/22 25-26; g65 11/8 10-11; g51 7/22 20
use of disease-killed trees for lumber: g83 12/8 30
coffee: g78 3/8 21-23; g75 10/22 30; g70 12/8 25
copaiba: g79 11/22 29
cork: g71 9/22 24; g63 3/22 22; g60 1/22 24-26
cow tree: g55 12/8 17
crab apple: g62 12/22 25
cypress: ad 406
Montezuma cypress: g77 9/22 26
dogwood: g77 4/22 24-25
durian: g67 9/8 23
ebony: ad 480; g48 3/22 23
elm: g80 11/8 30; g79 7/22 21-23; g76 2/8 30
eucalyptus: g77 9/22 26; g55 8/8 17; g46 11/8 14; g44 6/7 22; g41 11/26 26
fig: w79 9/15 16-18; ad 580-581
cursed by Jesus: g82 7/22 24; w72 95-96
fig-mulberry: w76 192; ad 581, 1563-1564
fir: g71 5/8 21
flamboyant: g77 8/22 20-21
frangipani: g77 8/22 21
gum: g55 5/8 20
hemlock: g64 6/22 25
juniper: ad 983
symbolic: w36 126; w33 307; w31 12-13
kauri: w73 84; g55 12/8 18; g47 8/8 21-23
laurel: ad 1034-1035
lotus: ad 1079
mahogany: g63 12/8 20; g48 3/22 23
mango: g70 2/22 25-26
mangrove: ce 156; g80 9/22 22-24; w73 84
maple: ce 148; g85 6/8 22; g73 2/22 11-12; g63 3/22 20-21; g49 4/8 9-11
mimosa: g81 9/22 14-15
monkeypot: g57 6/22 20
musanga: w73 85
myrtle: ad 1194; g31 8/19 759-761
neem tree: g79 12/8 30
nutmeg: g60 2/22 26
oak: g70 10/8 3
oil tree: ad 1247
olive: g79 3/8 13-15; g76 9/22 10; w73 82, 84-85; ad 1246-1247, 1251; w66 415; g53 4/22 20
palm: w76 581; g76 12/22 24; ad 1266-1267; g71 2/22 15; g71 6/22 25-26; g70 4/8 25-26; g57 6/22 20
carnauba palm: g76 12/22 20; g52 10/8 24; g44 10/11 14
date palm: ad 422-423, 1266-1267; g46 5/8 18-19
oil palm: g55 10/22 8
tucum palm: g44 10/11 14
papaya (papaw): g78 8/8 13-15; g71 5/8 11; g64 12/22 16-17; g54 9/22 16
pear: g71 5/22 20
pine: w73 82-84; g72 4/8 12-14; g68 10/8 30-31; g66 8/22 11
Digger pine: g85 8/8 13
Jeffrey pine’s role in octane rating of fuel: g85 10/8 12
products: g49 8/8 9-11
underground greenhouse for growing: g80 7/8 30
plane tree: ad 1316
pomegranate: ad 1318
poplar: ad 1320
prune-plum: g71 5/8 23
rata: g55 12/8 18
redwood: g77 9/22 26; g74 3/22 24-26; g73 6/8 10; g71 5/8 22; g55 8/8 17; g48 7/22 27; g46 11/8 13-14; g44 6/7 22
rubber: g77 4/8 24-25
Para rubber: g55 12/8 17-18
sapodilla: g59 6/22 13
sequoia: g74 3/22 24-26; w73 83-84; g73 6/8 9-10; g71 5/8 22; w70 144, 208; g70 10/8 3; g69 10/22 29; w68 520
contrast between size of tree and seed: ce 149; g85 8/8 13
giant: g57 2/8 24; g57 9/22 3; g55 8/8 19; g46 11/8 13-16; g44 6/7 22
tallest: go 73
shaving brush: g55 12/8 17
spruce: g71 5/8 21-22
storax: ad 1555
sumac: g71 7/22 23
sycamore: w76 192; ad 1563-1564
talipot: g65 3/22 20
tamarisk: ad 1573; g55 2/8 19
teak: w73 85; g60 12/22 17-18
walnut: ad 1237
willow: ad 1657-1658
snow willow: g64 3/8 25