Category:Flowers

Flower

In other languages, the word for "flower" is:
Chamorro: flores Indonesian: bunga Javanese: kembang, Sekar Balinese: bunga, Sekar Sundanese: kembang, kusuma Madurese: kembang, Sekar Sawu: bunga Toraja: bunga Acehnese: bungong Tetun: ai funan Tagalog: bulaklak Hiligaynon: bulak Maori: pua Fijian: senikau Hawaiian: pua Malagasy: vonikazo Rapanui: tiare

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Flowers - Very few species of flowers are mentioned in the Bible although they abounded in Palestine. It has been calculated that in Western Syria and Palestine from two thousand to two thousand five hundred plants are found, of which about five hundred probably are British wild-flowers. Their beauty is often alluded to (Song of Songs 2:12; Matthew 6:28). They are referred to as affording an emblem of the transitory nature of human life (Job 14:2; Psalms 103:15; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10). Gardens containing flowers and fragrant herbs are spoken of (Song of Songs 4:16; Song of Songs 6:2).