Weed

An unwanted plant that looks like wheat but has poisonous seeds and is usually bad-smelling and inedible.

Darnel grass, botanical illustration
Darnel grass, botanical illustration (Wikimedia Commons) Weed (tare, darnel)

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See Plants (Darnel Grass).

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Key References

Matthew 13:25

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Job 31:4

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

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Job (1)
Job 31:40

then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.

Matthew (8)
Matthew 13:25

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Matthew 13:26

When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:27

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

Matthew 13:29

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

Matthew 13:40

As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.