I know all the background on this scripture Jer 1.11 but who can tell me why an offshoot and not a tree.
A branch is not an offshoot.
An offshoot comes out of the ground close to the parent tree.
2007-02-14 08:33:32 · 6 answers · asked by trefrog56 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An offshoot implies new growth. The theme of those verses is an awakening, and new growth would give visible evidence of the tree's "awakening".
It would also have reminded Jeremiah that Jehovah had used a flowering offshoot (of almond, incidentally) to identify Aaron as Jehovah's appointed agent (as high priest to Israel). Jeremiah was also to be an agent of Jehovah.
See Numbers 16:1-3,10;17:1-10;Hebrews 9:4.
Interestingly, Jeremiah 1:11 uses a Hebrew term for a living "offshoot" of a tree which can also be applied to a harvested wooden staff or stave such as was used for shepherding or fighting. See 1 Samuel 17:40, 43.
It is vaguely comparable to the Greek term "xylon", which can mean a living branch (although "dendron" was more commonly used for a living tree). But the Greek term "xylon" generally meant a dead branch apart from the tree, such as would be crafted into the wooden xylophone (no coincidence in the name). In fact, "xylon" is plainly used to refer to a fighting club or staff (See Matthew 26:47,55; Mark 14:43, 48; Luke 22:52). The same term "xylon" is also used to refer to the stake upon which Christ Jesus was impaled (See Acts 5:30, Acts 10:39, Acts 13:29, Galatians 3:13 and 1 Peter 2:24).
That's one of the reasons Jehovah's Witnesses believe it probable that Jesus was impaled on a simple stake rather than an engineered cross device of two intersecting beams.
2007-02-15 03:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word for Almond is literally translated wakening and therefore, because this "offshoot" or "branch" (according to some translations) comes from the Almond tree, it means that Jehovah is keeping awake according to his promises--they will not return to him without results (according to other scriptures).
2007-02-14 10:08:24 · answer #2 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that the Hebrew word for almond tree literally means “the waker,” or “awakening one”? This is fitting when we remember that in the Palestine area the almond tree is among the first of all fruit-bearing trees to bloom, as early as January or the beginning of February. It also helps explain what God meant when he referred to the “offshoot of an almond tree.” (Jeremiah 1:11, 12) In other words, Jehovah God is “keeping awake” concerning his promises in order to carry them out.
2007-02-14 13:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by amorromantico02 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An offshoot IS a branch. Definition: a branch or lateral shoot from a main stem, as of a plant.
2007-02-14 08:41:58 · answer #4 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Don't confuse them, they still think the world is going to end next week. (or the week after that)
2007-02-14 08:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
How could Jewish Wrestlers know this?
2007-02-14 08:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋