Almond - prunus dulcis - Genesis 43:11, Numbers 17:7
The almond and hazel are mentioned together in a curious story of Jacob tending Laban's flocks. The almond blossom was a motif in the design of the Menorah. A piece of almond was Aaron's rod that budded. God showed a rod of almond to the young Jeremiah; by changing the vowel in the Hebrew word for almond, it came to mean "I watch over my word to perform it," thus emphasising that God would see that His word came to pass.
