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

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

3. Amos (a dresser of sycamore trees

4. Baal-tamar

5. behemoth—had a tail like a cedar tree

6. booth—made from tree branches

7. cherub—protected the tree of life

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

9. Eden

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

11. Elim

12. fiery serpents

13. forest

14. gallows

15. gardens

16. Gethsemane

17. grove

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

19. Hareth

20. Hiram—sent cedar and fir trees to Solomon

21. honey

22. Jericho—city of palm trees

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

24. Mamre—oak grove where Abraham dwelled

25. Mount of Olives

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

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

28. King Solomon—imported cedars from Lebanon

29. Feast of Tabernacles

30. tree worship

31. Wood of Ephraim

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

33. 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).