A pomegranate in these passages is a fruit, its tree, or an ornament shaped like the fruit. Israel's promised land includes pomegranates among its good produce, so the word can direct attention to ordinary food received with thanksgiving.
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A pomegranate in these passages is a fruit, its tree, or an ornament shaped like the fruit. Israel's promised land includes pomegranates among its good produce, so the word can direct attention to ordinary food received with thanksgiving.
The BSB source-word alignment has 32 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include pomegranates (11), of pomegranates (4), and pomegranates (3), . . . (2), of pomegranate (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Exodus 28:33. Its strongest book concentrations include Exodus (8), Song Of Solomon (6), 1 Kings (4), Jeremiah (4).
A pomegranate in these passages is a fruit, its tree, or an ornament shaped like the fruit. Israel's promised land includes pomegranates among its good produce, so the word can direct attention to ordinary food received with thanksgiving. Exodus also names woven pomegranates on Aaron's robe. Those are crafted ornaments, not edible fruit, and their meaning must be read within the instructions for his ministry.
Joel describes withered pomegranate trees alongside a ruined harvest, giving lament a concrete object. The same noun therefore belongs to provision, craftsmanship, and loss. It does not carry a single hidden spiritual message in every occurrence. Follow what the passage does with the fruit before turning it into an illustration for faith.
Pomegranates appear as produce in a good land, as designed ornaments in priestly clothing, and as withered trees in a summons to lament.
A land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Pomegranates belong to the land's diverse provision, which the surrounding exhortation answers with blessing God rather than self-satisfaction.
Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn all the way around the lower hem, with gold bells between them,
The instruction specifies pomegranates made from colored yarn along Aaron's robe, distinguishing designed ornament from literal orchard produce.
The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
The withered pomegranate joins other ruined trees in a lament over vanished harvest and joy, followed by a call to gather before God.
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Hebrew word. Pomegranate: fertility symbol in temple design; fruit embodies abundance, seeds suggest Israel's numerous people.
Pomegranate: fertility symbol in temple design; fruit embodies abundance, seeds suggest Israel's numerous people.
a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament) BDB: pomegranate Usage: pomegranate.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
רִמּוֹן is built from this root:
The pomegranate offers a useful discipline for teaching concrete biblical details. In Deuteronomy, it stands beside wheat, vines, and olive oil in the description of a land God gives. The appropriate response comes in the paragraph's instruction to bless the Lord after eating. In Exodus, yarn and bells locate the pomegranate within a garment God commands for Aaron's service.
In Joel, a familiar tree has withered, and the loss belongs to a larger summons to lament and pray. These movements should remain distinct. A teacher need not invent a meaning for the fruit's seeds or color to make the passages spiritually fruitful. The texts already connect tangible things with worship, obedience, and truthful grief.
Deut.8.8
The supplied lexical range includes fruit, tree, and artificial ornament. The verbs, materials, and setting identify which use is present; the noun alone does not settle symbolism.
Thanksgiving for food and attentiveness to material life can be compared with Christian gratitude, but these selected pomegranate passages do not establish an explicit New Testament fulfillment or a lexical connection to Christ's blood.