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briers

Meaning of “briers”

Thorny or prickly plants or shrubs.

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First occurrence: Judges 8:7

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Isaiah 5:6
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 5:6 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 7:23
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 7:23 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 7:24
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 7:24 · retained source text

With arrowes and with bowes shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briars and thornes.

Isaiah 7:25
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.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 7:25 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 9:18
¶ 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.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 9:18 · retained source text

¶ 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.

Isaiah 10:17
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;
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Isaiah 10:17 · retained source text

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:

Isaiah 27:4
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 27:4 · retained source text

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.

Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 32:13 · retained source text

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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