Thorn
צֵןStrong’s H6791tsen
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsen is the Hebrew word usually translated “from thorns” and “thorns”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.”
Meaning
- Thorn, barbmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- from thorns 1
- thorns 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צֵן tsen · thorn
1) thorn, barb 1a) meaning uncertain
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.