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
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Before your pots can feele the thornes, he shall take them away as with a whirlewind, both liuing, and in his wrath.
1611 marginal noteHeb. as liuing, as wrath.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
They compassed mee about like Bees, they are quenched as the fire of thornes: for in the Name of the LORD I wil destroy them.
1611 marginal noteHebr. cut downe.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
The way of the slouthfull man is as an hedge of thornes: but the way of the righteous is made plaine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. is raised vp as a causey.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Thornes and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doeth keepe his soule, shalbe farre from them.
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
And loe, it was all growen ouer with thornes, and nettles had couered the face thereof, and the stone wall therof was broken downe:
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
For as the crackling of thornes vnder a pot, so is the laughter of the foole: this also is vanitie.
1611 marginal noteHeb. sound
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As the lillie among thornes, so is my loue among the daughters.
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 they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rockes, and vpon all thornes, and vpon all bushes.
1611 marginal noteOr, comendable trees.
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.
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