'Shoots' in the Bible
It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its shoots unto the river.
Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants;
For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer, they wandered through the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with more than the weeping of Jaazer: thy shoots passed over the sea, they reached to the sea of Jaazer. The spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the highest branch of the lofty cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young shoots a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and eminent mountain:
His shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.