קוֹץqôwts

thornbush, thorn

Pronunciation: kotse · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6975

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 3:18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  • Exodus 22:6 “If you are burning thornbushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads into another person’s field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain or the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.
  • Judges 8:7 So Gideon said, “After the Lord gives me victory over Zebah and Zalmunna, I will return and tear your flesh with the thorns and briers from the wilderness.”
  • Judges 8:16 Then Gideon took the elders of the town and taught them a lesson, punishing them with thorns and briers from the wilderness.
  • 2 Samuel 23:6 But the godless are like thorns to be thrown away, for they tear the hand that touches them.
  • Psalms 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a crackling fire. But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord.
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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).