Ivy is a climbing plant with green, lobed leaves that often covers walls and trees.
About Ivy
Some readers may not think of Ivy Hedera helix as a “tree,” but we include it here because, like “proper trees” it has a thick, woody stem. People in cities, who only see it climbing the walls of buildings, need to be reminded that it also grows in forests. The two references in Scripture are in the Deuterocanon, where we read of ivy wreaths being worn by those in the procession for Dionysus, the Greek god of fruitfulness and vegetation, and of people being branded with an ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus.
Key References
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
All Scripture References (2)
2 Kings (1)
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
Mark (1)
they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”