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    Forsythia

    for-SITH-ee-ah

    Meaning

    Named for the forsythia flower; Early bloom

    English/Botanical origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Forsythia heralds the end of winter — flowers appearing, new things springing forth, the early bloom that declares God's season of singing has come.

    Verses · King James Version

    “For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.”

    Song of Solomon 2:11-12

    “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it?”

    Isaiah 43:19

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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