Commentaries:Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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Revelation 6:13
Her unripe figs (touv olunqouv authv). An old word (Latin grossi) for figs that grow in winter and fall off in the spring without getting ripe (Song of Solomon 2:11 f.), here only in N.T. Jesus used the fig tree (Mark 13:28) as a sign of the "end of the world's long winter" (Swete). Cf. Isaiah 34:4; Nahum 3:12.
When she is shaken of a great wind (upo anemou megalou seiomenh). Present passive participle of seiw, "being shaken by a great wind." See Matthew 11:7 for the reed so shaken.
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