'Sprout' in the Bible
Then God said, "Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!" And that is what happened:
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
"Indeed, this is the benefit of God's way: from the soil other plants will sprout.
"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.
to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation?
May grain be abundant in the land all the way to the mountain tops; may its fruits flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and may the cities sprout like the grass of the earth.
Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.
He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,
at the time that you plant them, carefully making them grow, the very morning you make your seed to sprout, your harvest will be ruined in a time of grief and unbearable pain."
In times to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom, sprout shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.
"Shout, you skies above, and you clouds, and let righteousness stream down. I am the one who says to the earth, "Let salvation blossom, and let righteousness sprout forth.'
"For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,
Look! Because it's a transplanted vine, won't it wither when the east wind hits it? It will surely wither in the terraces where it had started to sprout."'"
But you mountains of Israel are going to sprout branches and bear fruit for my people Israel, because they'll be coming soon.'"
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax.
He sleeps and gets up night and day while the seeds sprout and grow, although he doesn't know how