Nave’s Topical Bible
Gourd
2 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Jonah's, believed to be a vine resembling the American squash, Used in Assyria to cover huts
- The wild gourd in this case is supposed to be a plant like the Cucumber (in appearance)
Bible verses about “Gourd”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Jonah 4:6And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
- Jonah 4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
- Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
- Jonah 4:9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
- Jonah 4:10Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
- 2 Kings 4:39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.