116 occurrences in 13 translations

'Branches' in the Bible

A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides, becoming four branches.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodWater IrrigationFour Other ThingsGardensRivers

Jacob then took branches of fresh poplar, almond, and plane wood, and peeled the bark, exposing white stripes on the branches.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsWhiteTreesPolesSkinningBlack And White

He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingWater ContainersPolesSkinning

The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingAnimal ReproductionPolesBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteColor

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

Verse ConceptsAnimals MatingStrength Of AnimalsAnimal ReproductionWater ContainersPoles

As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

Verse ConceptsStrength Of AnimalsWeak Animals

And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Verse ConceptsInterpretation Of DreamsThree DaysThree Other Things

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandTypes Of ChristOne Material ThingGold Items For The Tabernacl

And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsThree Other Things

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsThree Other Things

And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

Verse ConceptsOne Material ThingGold Items For The Tabernacl

And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsThree Other Things

Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

Verse ConceptsAlmondsSix ThingsThree Other Things

And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

Verse ConceptsSix Things

Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

Verse ConceptsOne Material Thing

And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of TabernaclesSeven DaysFoliageWillowsBrooks

That is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord:“Waheb in Suphah,And the wadis of the Arnon [River],

Verse ConceptsBooksBooks, Not PreservedArnonHistorical BooksBrookscredibility

When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfDoing Things TwiceOlive Trees

So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Verse ConceptsShoutingBattle CriesGod's Swordgideon

The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersAxesTools

Each person also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire around the people, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died—about 1,000 men and women.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleBurning CitiesKilling Within IsraelPrivate Rooms

Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

"There's no reason to wait for you!" Joab retorted. Then he took three spears in his hand and stabbed Absalom in the heart while he was still alive, dangling from the branches of the oak tree.

Verse ConceptsAssassinations, CompletedHeart, HumanSpearsPiercingsThree Other Things

and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, 'Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? -- if Jehovah is God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.

Verse ConceptsChoicesdoubt, results ofdouble mindednessChallengesChoosingHesitationIndecisionOpinionsPublic OpinionSyncretismSkepticismDivided HeartsIndividuals Being SilentTwo Intangible ThingsThe Lord [Yahweh] Is Godfollowing

And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfOlivesFoliageMyrtle

The people went out, brought back branches, and made booths for themselves on each of their rooftops, and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardHousesRoofHousetopsNamed Gates

He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureSpreadingThe SunSunSunshine

For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

Verse ConceptsSproutingAre The Dead Raised?GrowingChange And Growthcutting

the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodFace Of GoddrynessMouthsPeople WitheredScorchingThe Outer DarknessEscaping EvilOuter Darkness

This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesGreen

His roots below dry up,and his branches above wither away.

Verse ConceptsPeople Withered

My roots will have access to water,and the dew will rest on my branches all night.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesdewMetaphorical Watering

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

Verse ConceptsWillows

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesGod's People Plantedspace

The mountains were covered by its shade,and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Verse ConceptsCedarThe Mountains Of Israel

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

Verse ConceptsAs Far As The Euphrates

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

Verse ConceptsBirds

The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHolidayHornsGod Giving LightSacrifice On The Bronze AltarBinding As AnimalsRegulating SacrificesThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

Your branches are a paradise of pomegranateswith choicest fruits,henna with nard—

Verse ConceptsOrchardsPomegranates

I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, And the smell of thy breath like apples,

Verse ConceptsApplesbreastsbreath

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

Look, the Lord God of Hostswill chop off the branches with terrifying power,and the tall trees will be cut down,the high trees felled.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRemnantSmall RemnantsTwo Or ThreeOlive Trees

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;And the land will be a desolation.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

And [the] rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

Verse ConceptsReedsSmellsCanalsNature DecayingBrooks

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

Verse ConceptsBlossomFilling PlacesRootsPotential Of FruitGod's People PlantedRoses

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.Women will come and make fires with them,for they are not a people with understanding.Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Verse ConceptsSympathyDullnessFirewoodGod Without Mercy

See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.

Verse ConceptsFruits Of SinThe Ungodly Sufferingfate

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

"Go through her rows of vines and destroy them, but don't completely destroy them. Strip away her branches, because they aren't the LORD's.

Verse ConceptsDestroying VineyardsBattlementsDestruction Of PlantsNot Destroyed

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:Glean the remnant of Israelas thoroughly as a vine.Pass your hand once more like a grape gathererover the branches.

Verse ConceptsGleaningGrapesRemnantVinesMetaphorical VineyardsSurvivors DestroyedDoing Repeatedly

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualStormsColors, GreenOaksBurning PlantsBeauty Of ThingsOlive TreesGod Controls Storms

Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River],Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about?

Verse ConceptsChaosRiver NileFloods

More than the weeping for Jazer, I'll weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your branches spread out to the sea, and reached as far as the Sea of Jazer. On your summer fruit and grapes the destroyer will fall.

Verse ConceptsGrapesVinesSummerVintageSummer Fruit

"Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsTrade

And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Verse ConceptsEaglesWingsWings Of BirdsFeathersThose Subjected To People

It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

Verse ConceptsFertile LandWater For PlantsBearing Fruit

Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

Verse ConceptsRootsUnfruitfulnessMany EnemiesPlants Growing UpEasy For People

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

Verse ConceptsTendernessMessianic PropheciesMetaphorical PlantingThe Mountains Of Israel

In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

Verse ConceptsBearing Fruit

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualRivers And StreamsVineyardAbundance, MaterialWater For PlantsBearing Fruitfruitfulness

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

Verse ConceptsHeightSceptreThings On High

But it was uprooted in fury,thrown to the ground,and the east wind dried up its fruit.Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;fire consumed them.

Verse ConceptsRootsWindDestruction Of PlantsOut Of The EastBurning PlantsPutting Things Down

And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Verse ConceptsSceptreBurning Plants

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfCedarPride, Examples OfTreesThings On High

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThings On High

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

Verse ConceptsNestsAnimal ReproductionBirds

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsBeauty Of Thingsgreatness

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Verse ConceptsBeauty Of ThingsEclipsewaterfalls

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulGarden Of Eden, TheEden

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFelling TreesAbandoning ThingsSuffering From ForeignersThings Falling

Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Verse ConceptsHomeGroups going homeBearing FruitNear The Time Generally

Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant,and on it was food for all.Wild animals found shelter under it,the birds of the air lived in its branches,and every creature was fed from it.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialFoliageBearing Fruit

He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:

Verse ConceptsFelling TreesThings StrippedFoliageBearing Fruit

"Cut down the tree and cut off its branches. Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get out from under it, and let the birds leave its branches. Nevertheless, leave the stump and its roots in the ground, but bind it with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be drenched with dew from the sky, and let him graze with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Verse ConceptsIronStumps Of A TreeIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To Man

Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:

Verse ConceptsFoliageBearing Fruit

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

Verse ConceptsGatesLocks And Bars

His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingBeauty, Temporal Nature OfBeauty, In NatureFragranceOlive Trees

He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Verse ConceptsWhiteThings StrippedFoliage

For Israel's sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.

Verse ConceptsWaitingBoothsPeople Sitting Downjonah

Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],And like those drowned in drunkenness,The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire]Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].

Verse Conceptsdrunkards

For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsVinesThose Who DestroySource Of Honour

And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfOlive OilOil For LampsWhat Is This?Speaking AgainWater ChannelOlive TreesMoral Decay

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSmall Things God UsesBig ThingsSmall ThingsPlants Growing UpHerbsBirdsPlanting SeedsChange And GrowthSeedssoaring

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCutting Off BranchesCrowds Around JesusFoliageUsing Roads

"Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches become tender and it produces leaves, you know that summer is near.

Verse ConceptsSpringTendernessSummerSoftnessNear The Time GenerallyParable Of The Fig TreeSeasons Changingspringtimerebirth

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Branch (67 instances)
Branches (116 instances)
Offset (3 instances)
Offshoot (1 instance)
Outgrowth (1 instance)
Separate (157 instances)

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