Job 41:2
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
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Thorn
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2 Corinthians 12:7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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חוֹחַ
chôwach · kho'-akh
2 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a thorn; by analogy, a ring for the nose
Strong's KJV usage: bramble, thistle, thorn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 41:2Strong's last: Proverbs 26:9
Open full H2336 profile →קוֹץ
qôwts · kotse
2 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a thorn
Strong's KJV usage: thorn.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 28:24Strong's last: Hosea 10:8
Open full H6975 profile →σκόλοψ
skólops · skol'-ops
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
withered at the front, i.e. a point or prickle (figuratively, a bodily annoyance or disability)
Strong's KJV usage: :--thorn.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 12:7Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 12:7
Open full G4647 profile →נַעֲצוּץ
naʻătsûwts · nah-ats-oots'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
probably a brier; by implication, a thicket of thorny bushes
Strong's KJV usage: thorn.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 55:13Strong's last: Isaiah 55:13
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H2336
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
H2336
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
H5285
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.
H6975
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
H6975
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
no direct Strong's tag
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.
G4647
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
English meaning and historical usage.
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thorn
THORN, noun
1. A tree or shrub armed with spines or sharp ligneous shoots; as the black thorn; white thorn etc. The word is sometimes applied to a bush with prickles; as a rose on a thorn
2. 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. But in common usage, thorn is applied to the prickle of the rose, and in fact the two words are used promiscuously.
3. Any thing troublesome. St. Paul had a thorn in the flesh. 2 Corinthians 12:7. Numbers 33:55.
4. In Scripture, great difficulties and impediments.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hosea 2.
5. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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