סְבָךְçᵉbâk
thicket (Genesis 22:13; Isaiah 9:17; Isaiah 10:34)
Pronunciation: seb-awk' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5442
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
- Psalms 74:5 They swung their axes like woodcutters in a forest.
- Isaiah 9:18 This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but also sets the forests ablaze. Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:34 He will cut down the forest trees with an ax. Lebanon will fall to the Mighty One.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).