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.
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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.
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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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