Bramble
אָטָדStrong’s H0329atad (a-tad)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atad is the Hebrew word usually translated “thorn bush” and “atad”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.”
Meaning
- Abel Mizraim = "meadow of Egypt"
- Bramble, thorn, buckthorn
How it's translated
- the thorn bush 3
- atad 2
- a thorn bush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Judges 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
- Judges 9:14Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
- Judges 9:15And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Hebrew dictionary
אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם avel mitsrayim · Abel-mizraim
Abel Mizraim = "meadow of Egypt" a place east of the Jordan (perhaps "as fertile as Egypt") Another name of a.tad (אָטָד "Atad" H0329G)
אָטָד atad · bramble
1) bramble, thorn, buckthorn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bramble” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRAM'BLE, noun
The raspberry bush or blackberry bush; a general name of the genus rubus, of which there are several species. They are armed with prickles; hence in common language, any rough, prickly shrub.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.