dendron · tree

What it means

dendron (δένδρον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tree”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A large woody plant that gives shade, wood or fruit.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tree ×17
• trees ×8

Where it appears

• Matthew×12
• Mark×1
• Luke×7
• Jude×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 3:10

  And already the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 7:17

  So every good tree produces good fruit, but the rotten tree produces bad fruit.

• Matthew 7:18

  A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree produce good fruit.

• Matthew 7:19

  Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 12:33

  Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for by its fruit the tree is known.

• Matthew 13:32

  it is smaller than all the seeds, but when it has grown, it is greater than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches.”

• Matthew 21:8

  And most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

• Mark 8:24

  And looking up, he was saying, “I see people, for I see them like trees, walking.”

• Luke 3:9

  And even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

• Luke 6:43

  For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

• Luke 6:44

  For each tree is known by its own fruit; for they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a bramble bush.

• Luke 13:19

  It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and put in his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

• Luke 21:29

  And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

• Jude 1:12

  These are the stains in your love feasts, feasting together without fear, shepherding themselves; waterless clouds carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;

• Revelation 7:1

  After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

• Revelation 7:3

  saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads.”

• Revelation 8:7

  And the first blew his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

• Revelation 9:4

  And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing or any tree, but only the people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

And 7 more times.