Judges 8:7
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
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Briers
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Hebrews 6:8
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
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8 occurrences in 8 verses.
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שָׁמִיר
shâmîyr · shaw-meer'
8 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
Strong's KJV usage: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:6Strong's last: Isaiah 32:13
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barqân · bar-kwan'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a thorn (perhaps as burning brightly)
Strong's KJV usage: brier.
Strong's first: Judges 8:7Strong's last: Judges 8:16
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tríbolos · trib'-ol-os
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)
Strong's KJV usage: :--brier, thistle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 6:8Strong's last: Hebrews 6:8
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çârâb · saw-rawb'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a thistle
Strong's KJV usage: brier.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 2:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 2:6
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H1303
And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
H1303
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
H8068
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.
H8068
And 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.
H8068
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
H8068
And 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.
H8068
For 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.
H8068
And 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;
H8068
Fury 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.
H8068
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
H5621
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
G5146
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
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brier
BRI'ER, noun
1. In a general sense, a prickly plant or shrub. Is.v.6. Judges 8:7.
2. In a limited sense, the sweet-brier and the wild-brier, species of the rose.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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