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Thorny or prickly plants or shrubs.
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First occurrence: Judges 8:7
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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.
And Gideon said, Therfore when the LORD hath deliuered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I wil teare your flesh with the thornes of the wildernesse, and with briers.
1611 marginal noteHeb. thresh
And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
And hee tooke the Elders of the citie, and thornes of the wildernes, and briers, and with them hee taught the men of Succoth.
1611 marginal noteHeb. made to know.
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.
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.
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.
And it shall come to passe in that day, that euery place shalbe, where there were a thousand Uines at a thousand siluerlings, it shall euen be for briers and thornes.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
With arrowes and with bowes shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briars and thornes.
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.
And on all hilles that shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thither the feare of briars and thornes: but it shall bee for the sending foorth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattell.
¶ 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.
¶ For wickednes burneth as the fire: it shall deuoure the briers and thornes, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forrest, and they shall mount vp like the lifting vp of smoke.
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;
And the light of Israel shall bee for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burne and deuoure his thornes and his briers in one day:
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.
Furie is not in mee: who would set the briars and thornes against me in battell? I would goe through them, I would burne them together.
1611 marginal noteOr, march against.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Upon the land of my people shall come vp thornes, and briars, yea vpon all the houses of ioy in the ioyous citie.
1611 marginal noteOr, burning vpon. &c.
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