39 occurrences in 13 translations

'Thorn' in the Bible

and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.

And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.

As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away are all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;

And Jehoash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, 'The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.

Come, we look one another in the face.' And Joash king of Israel sendeth unto Amaziah king of Judah, saying, 'The thorn that is in Lebanon hath sent unto the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for a wife; and pass by doth a beast of the field that is in Lebanon, and treadeth down the thorn.

Instead of wheat let a thorn go forth, And instead of barley a useless weed! The words of Job are finished.

Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And gone up have brier and thorn, And on the thick clouds I lay a charge, From raining upon it rain.

They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.

And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'

For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!

And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day.

Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them -- a thorn is in their tents.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

Like tangled thorn branches [gathered for fuel],And like those drowned in drunkenness,The people of Nineveh are consumed [through fire]Like stubble completely withered and dry [in the day of the Lord’s wrath].

And other [seed] fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns came up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.

And others are the ones sown among the thorn plants--these are the ones who hear the word,

But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes.

And other [seed] fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with [it] [and] choked it.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And the soldiers, twisting twigs of thorn into a wreath, put it on His head, and threw round Him a crimson cloak.

(Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the man!

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אטד 
'atad 
Usage: 6

חדק 
Chedeq 
Usage: 2

חוח 
Chowach 
Usage: 11

מסוּכה 
M@cuwkah 
Usage: 1

נעצוּץ 
Na`atsuwts 
Usage: 2

סרה סירה סיר 
Ciyr 
Usage: 34

סלּון סלּון 
Cillown 
Usage: 2

צן 
Tsen 
Usage: 2

צנן צנין 
Tsaniyn 
Usage: 0

קץ קוץ 
Qowts 
Usage: 12

קמּשׁון 
Qimmashown 
Usage: 1

שׁית 
Shayith 
Usage: 7

ἄκανθα 
Akantha 
Usage: 3

ἀκάνθινος 
Akanthinos 
of thorns
Usage: 2

σκόλοψ 
Skolops 
Usage: 1

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