Topic
Thorn
23 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 3:18Easton · Nave The ground cursed with
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
- Psalms 58:9Easton · Nave Used — For fuel
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Micah 7:4Easton · Nave Used — Hedges formed of
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.
- Matthew 13:7Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the evils that spring from the heart to choke the truth
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Numbers 33:55Nave FIGURATIVE — Of afflictions
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.
- Job 41:2Nave Used — As an awl
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
- Psalms 118:12Nave Used — For fuel
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
- Proverbs 15:19Easton
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
- Proverbs 22:5Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the adversities of the wicked
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6Nave Used — For fuel
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- Isaiah 7:19Easton
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
- Isaiah 55:13Easton
Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Show 11 more
- Jeremiah 12:13 Easton
- Hosea 2:6 Nave Used — Hedges formed of
- Hosea 10:8 Easton
- Matthew 7:16 Easton
- Matthew 13:22 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of the evils that spring from the heart to choke the truth
- Matthew 27:29 Nave Used — Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head
- Mark 15:17 Nave Used — Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head
- John 19:2 Nave Used — Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head
- John 19:5 Nave Used — Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of afflictions
- Hebrews 6:8 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 11 references
(1.) Heb. hedek (Prov. 15:19), rendered “brier” in Micah 7:4. Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges. This is probably the so-called “apple of Sodom,” which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley. “It is a shrubby plant, from 3 to 5 feet high, with very branching stems, thickly clad with spines, like those of the English brier, with leaves very large and woolly on the under side, and thorny on the midriff.”
(2.) Heb. kotz (Gen. 3:18; Hos. 10:8), rendered akantha by the LXX. In the New Testament this word akantha is also rendered “thorns” (Matt. 7:16; 13:7; Heb. 6:8). The word seems to denote any thorny or prickly plant (Jer. 12:13). It has been identified with the Ononis spinosa by some.
(3.) Heb. na’atzutz (Isa. 7:19; 55:13). This word has been interpreted as denoting the Zizyphus spina Christi, or the jujube-tree. It is supposed by some that the crown of thorns placed in wanton cruelty by the Roman soldiers on our Saviour’s brow before his crucifixion was plaited of branches of this tree. It overruns a great part of the Jordan valley. It is sometimes called the lotus-tree. “The thorns are long and sharp and recurved, and often create a festering wound.” It often grows to a great size. (See CROWN OF THORNS.)
(4.) Heb. atad (Ps. 58:9) is rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate by Rhamnus, or Lycium Europoeum, a thorny shrub, which is common all over Palestine. From its resemblance to the box it is frequently called the box-thorn.
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 16 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → The ground cursed with Ge 3:18
- → Used
- → FIGURATIVE
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.