Briar
חֵ֫דֶקStrong’s H2312chedeq (che-deq)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chedeq is the Hebrew word usually translated “thorn” and “like a thorn-bush”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.”
Meaning
- Brier, thorn, prick
How it's translated
- thorn 1
- like a thorn-bush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
- Micah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
חֵ֫דֶק chedeq · briar
brier, thorn, prick
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thorn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THORN, noun
- A tree or shrub armed with spines or sharp ligneous shoots; as the black thorn; white thorn etc.
- A sharp ligneous or woody shoot from the stem of a tree or shrub; a sharp process from the woody part of a plant; a spine. thorn differs from prickle; the latter being applied to the sharp points issuing from the bark of a plant and not attached to the wood, as in the rose and bramble.
- Any thing troublesome. 2 Corinthians 12:7Numbers 33:55
- In Scripture, great difficulties and impediments.
All definitions and other forms of “thorn”
- Worldly cares; things which prevent the growth of good principles. Matthew 13:7
THORN'-APPLE, noun
[thorn and apple.]
A plant of the genus Datura; a popular name of the Datura Stramonium, or apple of Peru.
THORN'-BACK, noun
[thorn and back.]
A fish of the ray kind, which has prickles on its back.
THORN'-BUSH, noun
A shrub that produces thorns.
THORN'-BUT, noun
A fish, a but or turbot.
THORN'-HEDGE, noun
[thorn and hedge.]
A hedge or fence consisting of thorn
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.