Thornbush
שַׁ֫יִתStrong’s H7898shayit (sha-yit)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shayit is the Hebrew word usually translated “bush” and “bush his”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.”
Meaning
- Thorn bushes
How it's translated
- and bush 4
- and the bush 1
- bush his 1
- bush 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 7
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
- 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 10:17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
- Isaiah 27:4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫יִת shayit · thornbush
thorn bushes
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bush” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUSH, noun
[Latin pasco, originally, to feed on sprouts.]
- A shrub with branches; a thick shrub; also, a cluster of shrubs.
- An assemblage of branches interwoven.
- A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a tavern sign.
- A circle of metal let into the sheaves of such blocks as have iron pins, to prevent their wearing.
All definitions and other forms of “bush”
BUSH, verb intransitive
To grow thick or bushy.
BUSH, verb transitive
To furnish a block with a bush
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.