Dates (date honey)
FRUIT
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 30 verses (KJV)
FruitOne of the seven species
Description
The date palm produced one of the most reliable sweeteners of the ancient Near East, and many scholars think the ‘honey’ in the famous description of Canaan as a land flowing with milk and honey refers to thick date syrup rather than honey from bees. A single tree could bear fruit for decades.
Key verses
“A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;”
Deuteronomy 8:8
Fun fact
The ‘honey’ named among the land’s seven crops (Deuteronomy 8:8) is widely thought to mean date syrup.
All 30 referencesshow
- 1 Kings 6:29
- 1 Kings 6:32
- 1 Kings 6:35
- 1 Kings 7:36
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
- 2 Chronicles 28:15
- Deuteronomy 34:3
- Exodus 15:27
- Ezekiel 40:16
- Ezekiel 40:22
- Ezekiel 40:26
- Ezekiel 40:31
- Ezekiel 40:34
- Ezekiel 40:37
- Ezekiel 41:18
- Ezekiel 41:19
- Ezekiel 41:20
- Ezekiel 41:25
- Ezekiel 41:26
- Jeremiah 10:5
- Joel 1:12
- John 12:13
- Judges 1:16
- Judges 3:13
- Judges 4:5
- Leviticus 23:40
- Numbers 33:9
- Psalms 92:12
- Song of Solomon 7:7
- Song of Solomon 7:8