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WEEDS

Uncultivated nuisance plants, found in the OT at Job 31:40 (Heb. bāʾăšâ; NRSV “foul weeds”); Hos. 10:4 (rōš; NRSV “poisonous weeds”). The reference at Jonah 2:5(MT 6) probably indicates seaweed (sûp).

In the NT all instances of Gk. zizánion are found in the parable of the weeds of the field and its interpretation (Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43; KJV “tares”). This particular weed was probably darnel (Lolium tremulentum), a poisonous weed that as a seedling closely resembles the young wheat plants, thus making early separation of the two almost impossible (cf. Matt. 13:29). In the parable these weeds represent the children of the evil one who dwell in the world alongside the children of the kingdom. As with the weeds and the wheat, the separation of good from bad people will not take place until the judgment at the end of the age, represented in the parable by the harvest and the burning of the weeds.







Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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