Hedge
מְסוּכָהStrong’s H4534mesukhah (me-su-khah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mesukhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “more than a thorn hedge”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.”
Meaning
- Hedge
How it's translated
- more than a thorn hedge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Micah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְסוּכָה mesukhah · hedge
hedge
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hedge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEDGE, noun
hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows, to separate the parts of a garden.
All definitions and other forms of “hedge”
HEDGE, verb transitive
hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- To obstruct with a hedge or to obstruct in any manner.
- To surround for defense; to fortify.
- To inclose for preventing escape.
HEDGE, verb intransitive
hej. To hide, as in a hedge; to hide; to skulk.
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.