Thistle
חוֹחַStrong’s H2336choach (cho-ach)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Choach is the Hebrew word usually translated “thornbush”, “thorn” and “thickets”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.”
Meaning
- Thorn, brier, bramble, thornbush, thicket
- Hook, ring, fetter
How it's translated
- the thornbush 3
- thorn 3
- and in thickets 1
- thornbush 1
- with hooks 1
- and with a hook 1
- the thorns 1
- and thornbush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Job 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
- Song of Solomon 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 14:9And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 25:18And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 33:11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- Job 31:40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
- Job 41:2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
- Proverbs 26:9As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Hebrew dictionary
חוֹחַ choach · thistle
1) thorn, brier, bramble, thornbush, thicket 2) hook, ring, fetter Also means: cha.vach (חָוָח "thicket" H2337)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thistle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THISTLE, noun
this'l. The common name of numerous prickly plants of the class Syngenesia, and several genera; as the common corn thistle or Canada thistle of the genus Serratula or Cnicus; the spear thistle of the genus Cnicus; the milk thistle of the genus Carduus; the blessed thistle of the genus Centaurea; the globe thistle of the genus Echinops; the cotton thistle of the genus Onopordon; and the sow thistle of the genus Sonchus. The name is also given to other prickly plants not of the class Syngenesia; as the fuller's thistle or teasel of the genus Dipsacus, and the melon thistle and torch thistle of the genus Cactus.
- “Thorns also and thistles shall it bring froth to thee” Genesis 3:18
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.