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.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
(2): (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
(3): (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
(4): (v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
(5): (v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
(6): (v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
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.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [4]
"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.
