JEREMIAH 1:11
- Yah.weh asks Jeremiah: “What do you see, Jeremiah?”
- Jeremiah answers that he sees a branch of an almond tree!
- So here we get a dialogue between Yah.weh and Jeremiah!
- It indicates they have a strong relationship![/QUOTE]
I say ---------Are you sure that this is what it really means ------that they have a strong bond together ????-----or is He giving Jeremiah a vision that God's destruction is coming -------
Hebrew Word almond ----
The Hebrew name for the almond (sha-KED) and for the tree (Eitz haSha-KED or shkaydiYAH) coincidentally has the same root letters as a verb meaning “to be eager, alert, awake, diligent, ready to act.”
The Bible makes a pun on that coincidence. After a frightening vision of destruction, the prophet Jeremiah then sees an almond branch, which he understands to mean that the destruction will come soon (1:12-13). If he spoke English, he would never have understood the message; he spoke Hebrew, so he recognized that the almond signifies “eagerness.” Perhaps the name of the almond tree is not a coincidence, and it is “so called for its early waking out of winter’s sleep” (Rabbi David Kimhi)