Bud
King James Dictionary [1]
BUD, n. Gr. to plant or beget. A gem the shoot of a plant a small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves or a flower. It is called by botanists the hybernacle, the winter lodge or receptacle of the leaves or flowers of plants, and is an epitome of a flower, or of a shoot, which is to be unfolded the succeeding summer. It is covered with scales, which are intended to defend the inclosed rudiments from cold and other external injuries.are of three kinds that containing the flower that containing the leaves and that containing both flower and leaves.
BUD, To put forth or produce buds or gems. Job 19:9 .
1. To put forth shoots to grow as a bud into a flower or shoot.
2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
3. To be in bloom, or growing like a young plant.
BUD, To inoculate a plant to insert the bud of a plant under the bark of another tree, for the purpose of raising, upon any stock, a species of fruit different from that of the stock.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to bud," is said of Aaron's rod, Hebrews 9:14; "spring up," Matthew 13:26; Mark 4:27; elsewhere, in James 5:18 . See Bring , No. 26, SPRING, No. 6.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Numbers 17:8 (c) This indicates that GOD can bring life out of death and to cause that which is helpless to become prosperous.
Psalm 132:17 (b) Here is a beautiful way of saying that the throne of David would again be set up and dead Israel would again become a living nation.
Isaiah 27:6 (a) This is another prophecy that the nation of Israel which has been crushed and made fruitless will again flourish and bring forth fruit. (See also Ezekiel 29:21).
Ezekiel 7:10 (a) Evidently Israel was boasting and exhibiting pride of position and power. It is compared to the budding of a plant which would afterwards become fully developed.
Ezekiel 16:7 (a) Here is a type of the freshness and loveliness with which GOD endowed the nation of Israel under the reign of David and Solomon.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
See Flowers .
