Topic
Flourish
18 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Psalms 72:7ISBE
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
- Psalms 72:16ISBE
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
- Psalms 90:6ISBE
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- Psalms 92:7ISBE
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
- Psalms 92:12ISBE
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Psalms 92:13ISBE
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
- Psalms 92:14ISBE
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
- Psalms 103:15ISBE
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Psalms 132:18ISBE
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
- Proverbs 14:11ISBE
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5ISBE
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Song of Songs 6:11ISBE
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
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- Song of Songs 7:12 ISBE
- Isaiah 66:14 ISBE
- Jeremiah 1:11 ISBE
- Daniel 4:4 ISBE
- Zechariah 9:17 ISBE
- Philippians 4:10 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
flur'-ish (parach, tsuts; anathallo):
The translation of parach, "to break forth" (Ps 72:7; 92:12,13; Pr 14:11; Isa 66:14; So 6:11; 7:12; the Revised Version (British and American) "budded"); of tsuts "to bloom" (Ps 72:16, 90:6; 92:7; 103:15; 132:18); ra`anan, "green," "fresh," is translated "flourishing" in Ps 92:14, the Revised Version (British and American) "green," and ra`anan, Aramaic in Da 4:4; nubh, "to sprout" (Zec 9:17, the King James Version "cheerful").
In an interesting passage (Ec 12:5 the King James Version), the Hiphil future of na'ats, meaning properly "to pierce or strike," hence, to slight or reject, is translated "flourish"; it is said of the old man "The almond tree shall flourish," the Revised Version (British and American) "blossom" (so Ewald, Delitzsch, etc.); na'ats has nowhere else this meaning; it is frequently rendered "contemn;" "despise," etc. Other renderings are, "shall cause loathing" (Gesenius, Knobel, etc.), "shall be despised," i.e. the hoary head; "The almond tree shall shake off its flowers," the silvery hairs falling like the fading white flowers of the almond tree; by others it is taken to indicate "sleeplessness," the name of the almond tree (shaqedh) meaning the watcher or early riser (compare Jer 1:11, "a rod of an almond-tree," literally, "a wakeful (or early) tree"), the almond being the first of the trees to wake from the sleep of winter.
See ALMOND.
"Flourish" appears once only in the New Testament, in the King James Version, as translation of anathallo, "to put forth anew," or "to make put forth anew" (Php 4:10): "Your care for me hath flourished again," the Revised Version (British and American) "Ye have revived your thought for me."
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.