What Is Ivy (gourd plant) in the Bible?
Plant
A plant that grows fast and gives shade. God made it grow for Jonah and then made it wither.
Where it appears in the Bible
Jonah 4:6-10
What the Bible says
Jonah 4:6-10
6And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued), and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy. 7But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered. 8And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live. 9And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death. 10And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “yedra”