Almond Tree. Genesis 43:11. This tree resembles a peach tree, but is larger. In Palestine it blossoms in January, and in March has fruit. Its blossoms are pinkish-white. Its Hebrew name signifies to watch and hasten, and to this there is an allusion in Jeremiah 1:11-12. Aaron's rod was from an almond. Numbers 17:8. In Ecclesiastes 12:5 the hoary head is beautifully compared with the almond tree, either on account of its whiteness, beauty and winter blossoming, or the hastening on of decay. The golden bowls of the sacred candlestick were made "like almonds, with their knops and their flowers." Exodus 25:33-34.