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    Viola

    vy-OH-lah

    Meaning

    Violet; Purple flower

    Latin/Italian origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Viola blooms knowing the Word endures — flesh as grass, glory fading, yet the word of the Lord standing forever, the violet who lives by eternal truth.

    Verses · King James Version

    “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”

    Isaiah 40:8

    “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.”

    1 Peter 1:24-25

    Most used in the 1900s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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