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
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.
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
And the people shalbe as the burnings of lyme: as thornes cut vp shall they be burnt in the fire.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
And thornes shall come vp in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shalbe an habitation of dragons, and a court for owles.
1611 marginal noteOr, ostriches. Hebr. daughters of the owle.
¶ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
¶ For thus saith the LORD to the men of Iudah and Ierusalem, Breake vp your fallow ground, and sow not among thornes.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
They haue sowen wheate, but shall reape thornes: they haue put themselues to paine, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your reuenues, because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
1611 marginal noteLeuit. 26.16. deut.26 38. mic.6.15. agg.1.6.
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