Blossom
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [1]
Isaiah 5:24 (b) GOD is thus informing Israel that there would be no blessing waiting for them in future days. The fact that there were no flowers indicated that there would be no fruit.
Isaiah 27:6 (b) The restoration of Israel is to be a slow process as in the formation of fruit. First, there is the bud, then the bloom, and then the fruit.
Ezekiel 7:10 (b) As the blossom is an evidence of future fruitfulness, so on a rod it indicates the coming of GOD's punishment on His people. It presages fruit. In this case it is foretelling that the fruit will be of the kind that hurts and harms Israel.
Habakkuk 3:17 (b) Flowers always indicate that fruit is to follow.
Flowers raise the hope of the farmer for a bountiful crop. In this case since there were no flowers it would indicate clearly that there would be no future fruit, but rather famine and sorrow. Even though this was the case, the prophet would rejoice and sing.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
(2): (n.) To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
(3): (n.) To flourish and prosper.
(4): (n.) The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; - otherwise called peach color.
(5): (n.) The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.
King James Dictionary [3]
BLOS'SOM, n. Gr. a bud, probably from the same root.
1. The flower or corol of a plant a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers,when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers. 2. This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white,but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs otherwise, peach-colored.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
(usually נֵוֹ , Nets), the flower of a tree ( Genesis 40:10). The almond rod of Aaron, which, by the miraculous power of God, was made to bud and blossom and bring forth almonds ( Numbers 17:8), was, in the opinion of some commentators, a very suitable emblem of Him who first arose from the grave; and as the light and warmth of the vernal sun seems first to affect this symbolical tree ( Jeremiah 1:11), it was with great propriety that the bowls of the golden candlestick were shaped like almonds. Most commentators think that the rod of Aaron continued to retain its leaves and fruit after it was laid up in the tabernacle; and some writers are of opinion that the idea of the Ithyrsus, or rod encircled with vine branches, which Ecchus was represented to bear in his hand, was borrowed from some tradition concerning Aaron's rod that blossomed. (See Aaron); (See Rod).
