Hebrew

Briar

בַּרְקָנִיםStrong’s H1303

barqan (bar-qan)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Barqan is the Hebrew word usually translated “briers”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”

Judges 8:7 KJV

Meaning

Briers, briars

How it's translated

briers 1
the briers 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Judges 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Judges 8:16And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Hebrew dictionary

בַּרְקָנִים barqan · briar

briers, briars

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “brier” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BRI'ER, noun

In a general sense, a prickly plant or shrub. Judges 8:7
In a limited sense, the sweet-brier and the wild-brier, species of the rose.

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.