Hebrew

Thorn

צָנִיןStrong’s H6796

tsanin (tsa-nin)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tsanin is the Hebrew word usually translated “pricks” and “thorns”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.”

Numbers 33:55 KJV

Meaning

Thorn, prick

How it's translated

and pricks 1
and thorns 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Numbers 1
Joshua 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Joshua 23:13Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Hebrew dictionary

צָנִין tsanin · thorn

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 12:7 Numbers 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.