18 Bible Verses About Spring, and the Season Hebrew Has No Word For

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Resumen

  • Biblical Hebrew has no word for spring; the year runs on seedtime and harvest, and the first month is named for the state of the barley.
  • The Song of Solomon holds the only extended description of the season in Scripture, and it is a love poem.
  • Isaiah’s new thing is already springing up while it is still invisible, and his question expects the honest answer: no.
  • Hosea’s unploughed ground is hardened land, and breaking it is the least rewarding job in the farming year.
  • The flowers of Matthew 6 are chosen for how briefly they last — the next verse has them thrown into an oven.

Biblical Hebrew has no word for spring as we use it. The year in Scripture is divided into seedtime and harvest, and the calendar opens in a month called Abib, which is not a season but a description of the barley — green ears, at the stage just before it ripens. The festival that falls in it is Passover, and the resurrection happens during that week. So the associations are already there, but they are agricultural before they are anything…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The month of Abib, named for the green ears of barley, is set as the first month at Exodus 13:4 and Deuteronomy 16:1.

The farmer who sleeps and does not know how the grain grows is at Mark 4:26-29.

God’s farming in Psalm 65 continues through verses 9 to 13.

The oven the flowers are thrown into is at Matthew 6:30.

The rest of the exchange in Isaiah 61:3 follows the mourning of 61:1-2.

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