TREE OF LIFE Definition & Meaning

tree of life

noun

a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Genesis 2:9; 3:22.
a tree in the heavenly Jerusalem with leaves for the healing of the nations. Revelation 22:2.
arbor vitae.

tree of life

noun

Old Testament a tree in the Garden of Eden, the fruit of which had the power of conferring eternal life (Genesis 2:9; 3:22)
New Testament a tree in the heavenly Jerusalem, for the healing of the nations (Revelation 22:2)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of tree of life¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English

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The women chose to stitch on to their panel the houses of Camden, where Michael lived, and the tree of life, to represent the parks in London he was fond of.

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In October 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and shot and killed 11 Jews at prayer.

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Lamm argues that the tree of life we're all familiar with is organized mostly on the basis of phenotype anyway.

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The familiar tree of life has therefore been rewritten to express this, with organisms that seem quite different revealed as having more similar genomes than superficially closer-seeming relatives.

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But it’s clear that value is not equally distributed among bird species, nor among other organisms across the tree of life.

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