Thicket
סְבַךְStrong’s H5442sevakh (se-vakh)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sevakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “thickets of”, “thicket” and “thicket of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.”
Meaning
- Thicket
How it's translated
- thickets of 2
- in the thicket 1
- in a thicket of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Hebrew dictionary
סְבַךְ sevakh · thicket
thicket
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thicket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THICK'ET, noun
A wood or collection of trees or shrubs closely set; as a ram caught in a thicket
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.