KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Sharp spines or prickles. Sense 2: Thorn-bearing plants and figures of things that prick, obstruct, or grieve.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 3:18
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
¶ Therefore behold, I will hedge vp thy way with thornes, and make a wall, that she shall not find her pathes.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wall a wall.
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
For loe they are gone, because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them vp, Memphis shall burie them: the pleasant places for their siluer, netles shal possesse them: thornes shall be in their Tabernacles.
1611 marginal noteHeb. spoile.
1611 marginal noteOr, their siluer shall be desired, the nettle &c: Heb. the desire.
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