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

• gerah, possibly of carob tree
• 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

1. 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).

2. Adam and Eve—ate the fruit of a forbidden tree

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

4. Amos (a dresser of sycamore trees

5. Baal-tamar

6. behemoth—had a tail like a cedar tree

7. booth—made from tree branches

8. cherub—protected the tree of life

9. Deborah—sat under a palm tree as a judge

10. Eden

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

12. Elim

13. fiery serpents

14. forest

15. gallows

16. gardens

17. Gethsemane

18. grove

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

20. Hareth

21. Hiram—sent cedar and fir trees to Solomon

22. honey

23. Jericho—city of palm trees

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

25. Mamre—oak grove where Abraham dwelled

26. Mount of Olives

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

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

29. King Solomon—imported cedars from Lebanon

30. Feast of Tabernacles

31. tree worship

32. Wood of Ephraim

33. Zacchaeus—climbed a sycamore tree to watch Jesus Christ