Last week we touched on the parable that Yahushua taught in Matthew 24:32–35.
Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near — at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. (Matt. 24:32–35, NKJV)
To get a better picture, we read the entire chapter to understand that the parable of the fig tree is embedded in the middle of the chapter about the end times.
Studying Deeper
Word Study: Lists
The fig tree (Strong’s H8384, “teh-ane’”; G4808, “soo-kay’”, unless otherwise stated). The list has the reference first, how the fig tree is used (except in the literal listing), what other trees, shrubs, vines, and plants are mentioned.
Used to represent a person (personification):
- Judges 9:10-11, judgment, trees
- Hosea 9:10, judgment, grapes in the wilderness
Used as a simile (a similitude):
- 1 Kings 4:25, blessing, vine
- 2 Kings 18:31, blessing, vine
- Proverbs 27:18, blessing
- Micah 4:4, blessing
- Zechariah 3:10, blessing, vine
- Matthew 24:32, warning
- Mark 13:28, warning
- Luke 13:6–7, parable
- Luke 21:29, parable, tree
- Revelation 6:13, judgment
Used literally:
- Song of Solomon 2:13, grape vines
- Joel 2:22, tree, vine
- Matthew 21:19
- Mark 11:13
- Mark 11:20–21
- John 1:48
- John 1:50
- James 3:12, olive berries
Used as a metaphor:
- Isaiah 34:4, judgment, vine
- Isaiah 36:16, warning, vine
- Jeremiah 8:13, judgment, grapes on the vines
- Joel 1:7, judgment, vine
- Joel 1:12, judgment, vine, pomegranate tree, palm tree, apple tree, trees of the field
- Habakkuk 3:17, judgment, fruit in the vines, olive
- Haggai 2:19, promised blessing, vine, pomegranate, olive tree
Fig Tree is a tree as opposed to a shrub.
Strong’s H8384, teh-ane’, feminine noun, fig, fig tree. The root word is possibly of foreign derivation. (H8384 — tᵊ’ēnâ — Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon (kjv))
Strong’s G4808, soo-kay’, feminine noun, a fig tree. (G4808 — sykē — Strong’s Greek Lexicon (kjv))
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