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A Question About Fig Trees
By: Laurie Date: March 16, 2014, 9:11 am
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I just read something I'd never heard before, but couldn't find
anything to verify it.
Does anyone here know if the fruit of a fig tree starts
appearing the same time as the leaves start budding out?
Can you guess why I'd like to know? LOL
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Re: A Question About Fig Trees
By: guest6 Date: March 16, 2014, 2:26 pm
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[quote author=Laurie link=topic=709.msg7030#msg7030
date=1394979108]
I just read something I'd never heard before, but couldn't find
anything to verify it.
Does anyone here know if the fruit of a fig tree starts
appearing the same time as the leaves start budding out?
Can you guess why I'd like to know? LOL
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I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to but I found
this information. 4. Early Figs:
These tiny figs develop along with the leaves up to a certain
point-to about the size of a small cherry-and then the great
majority of them fall to the ground, carried down with every
gust of wind. These are the "unripe figs" (olunthos)-translated,
more appropriately in the King James Version, as "untimely
figs"-of Revelation 6:13. Compare also Isaiah 34:4 the King
James Version-in the Revised Version (British and American)
"leaf" has been supplied instead of "fig." These immature figs
are known to the fellahin as taksh, by whom they are eaten as
they fall; they may even sometimes be seen exposed for sale in
the markets in Jerusalem. In the case of many trees the whole of
this first crop may thus abort, so that by May no figs at all
are to be found on the tree, but with the best varieties of
fig-trees a certain proportion of the early crop of figs remains
on the tree, and this fruit reaches ripe perfection about June.
Such fruit is known in Arabic as dafur, or "early figs," and in
Hebrew as bikkurah, "the first-ripe" (Isaiah 28:4 Jeremiah 24:2
Hosea 9:10). They are now, as of old, esteemed for their
delicate flavor (Micah 7:1, etc.).
HTML http://biblehub.com/topical/f/fig-tree.htm
The early figs, appearing in March or April and ripening in
June, are called "bikkurah." In the Revised Version this word,
in accordance with its etymology, is uniformly rendered by
"first ripe fig" (Isa. xxviii. 4; Micah vii. 1; Hosea ix. 10).
The early fig was considered a great delicacy by the
Hebrews....The fig-tree was associated with the vine as an
emblem of peace and prosperity (Micah iv. 4; Isa. xxxvi. 16). On
the other hand, the failure of the fig-crop and the destruction
of the fig-tree were regarded as a misfortune and as a
punishment from God (Ps. cv. 33).
HTML http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6111-fig-and-fig-tree
Matt. 21:18But at dawn when he returned to the city he was
hungry. 19And he saw one fig tree by the road and came to it and
he found nothing on it except leaves only, and he said to it,
“There will be no fruit on you again forever”, and at once that
fig tree withered up.
43“Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of God will be taken
from you and will be given to a people who will produce fruit.”
45And when the Chief Priests and the Pharisees heard his
parables, they knew that he had spoken against them.
Matthew 24:32-34 (NKJV) Now learn this parable from the fig
tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth
leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see
all these things, know that it is near; at the doors! Assuredly,
I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till
all these things take place.
I think this means that all these things would come to pass in
their generation, that's how near and close it was.
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Re: A Question About Fig Trees
By: Kerry Date: March 16, 2014, 10:01 pm
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I found this at Wikipedia
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig:
Two crops of figs are potentially produced each year. The first
or breba crop develops in the spring on last year's shoot
growth. In contrast, the main fig crop develops on the current
year's shoot growth and ripens in the late summer or fall. The
main crop is generally superior in both quantity and quality to
the breba crop. However, some cultivars produce good breba crops
(e.g., 'Black Mission', 'Croisic', and 'Ventura').
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