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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BRIER

bri'-er.

See THORNS.

Greek

5146. tribolos -- a thistle
... brier, thistle. From treis and belos; properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction
in war), ie (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop) -- brier, thistle. ...
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942. batos -- a bramble bush
... bramble, bush. Of uncertain derivation; a brier shrub -- bramble, bush. (batou) --
4 Occurrences. (bato) -- 1 Occurrence. 941, 942. batos. 943 . ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5544. sillon -- a briar
... 5543c, 5544. sillon or sallon. 5545 . a briar. Transliteration: sillon or sallon
Phonetic Spelling: (sil-lone') Short Definition: brier. ... brier, thorn. ...
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8068. shamir -- a thorn, adamant, flint
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a thorn, adamant, flint NASB Word Usage
briars (8), diamond (1), emery (1), flint (1). adamant stone, brier, diamond. ...
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5636. sirpad -- nettle (a desert plant)
... brier. From caraph; a nettle (as stinging like a burn) -- brier. see HEBREW
caraph. 5635, 5636. sirpad. 5637 . Strong's Numbers.
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5621. sarab -- perhaps thorns
... Usage thistles (1). brier. From an unused root meaning to sting; a thistle --
brier. 5620, 5621. sarab. 5622 . Strong's Numbers.
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1303. barqanim -- briars
... brier. From baraq; a thorn (perhaps as burning brightly) -- brier. see HEBREW
baraq. 1302, 1303. barqanim. 1304 . Strong's Numbers.
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2312. chedeq -- a briar
... brier, thorn. From an unused root meaning to sting; a prickly plant -- brier,
thorn. 2311, 2312. chedeq. 2313 . Strong's Numbers.
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7899. sek -- a thorn
... prick. From cakak in the sense of suwk; a brier (as of a hedge) -- prick. see HEBREW
cakak. see HEBREW suwk. 7898, 7899. sek. 7900 . Strong's Numbers.
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5285. naatsuts -- a thorn bush
... thorn. From an unused root meaning to prick; probably a brier; by implication, a
thicket of thorny bushes -- thorn. 5284, 5285. naatsuts. 5286 . ...
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Library

October 4. "Instead of the Brier, the Myrtle Tree" (Isa. Lv. 13).
... OCTOBER 4. "Instead of the brier, the myrtle tree" (Isa. lv. 13). "Instead
of the brier, the myrtle tree" (Isaiah 55:13). God's ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /october 4 instead of the.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1820 to the Beginning ...
... shall include the Kentucky, Salt River, Green River, and Cumberland districts, and
that part of the state of Virginia included in the Green Brier and Monroe ...
/.../chapter 6 from the close.htm

Hymn for the Lighting of the Lamps
... the rushing fire? For Moses erst, amid the prickly brier, Saw God made manifest
in lambent flame. Ah, happy he! deemed worthy face ...
/.../prudentius/the hymns of prudentius/v hymn for the lighting.htm

Song 1. The Sluggard.
... Or walks about sauntering, or trifling he stands. I passed by his garden, and saw
the wild brier,. The thorn, and the thistle grow broader and higher: ...
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Righteousness is not Placed in Jewish Rites but in the Conversion ...
... you, and all the trees of the fields shall applaud with their branches: and instead
of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the brier shall come ...
/.../chapter xiv righteousness is not placed.htm

That the Judges who Succeeded Gideon Made War with the Adjoining ...
... same words which the fig-tree had used before, and excused itself from accepting
the government: and when the olive-tree had done the same, the brier, whom the ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 7 that the judges.htm

The Good Shepherd and his Flock.
... He comforts, heals, and binds; The lost He came from heaven to seek,. And saves
them when He finds. Through wilds of brier and thorn,. In darkness if they stray ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn liv the good shepherd.htm

December 14. "Instead of the Thorn Shall Come up the Fir Tree" ...
... to render unto us double for our time of testing, and fulfil the promise, "Instead
of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, instead of the brier the myrtle tree ...
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Gwennap's Famous Amphitheater
... it to this day. Wednesday, 17."I twice stopped a violent bleeding from
a cut by applying a brier leaf. The room at Launceston ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/gwennaps famous amphitheater.htm

Ahaz
... was constrained to exclaim: "The good man is perished out of the earth: and there
is none upright among men." "The best of them is as a brier: the most upright ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 27 ahaz.htm

Easton's Bible Dictionary

This word occurs frequently, and is the translation of several different terms.

(1.) Micah 7:4, it denotes a species of thorn shrub used for hedges. In Proverbs 15:19 the word is rendered "thorn" (Hebrews hedek, "stinging"), supposed by some to be what is called the "apple of Sodom" (q.v.).

(2.) Ezek. 28:24, sallon', properly a "prickle," such as is found on the shoots of the palm tree.

(3.) Isaiah 55:13, probably simply a thorny bush. Some, following the Vulgate Version, regard it as the "nettle."

(4.) IsaiahIsaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23-25, etc., frequently used to denote thorny shrubs in general. In 10:17; 27:4, it means troublesome men.

(5.) In Hebrews 6:8 the Greek word (tribolos) so rendered means "three-pronged," and denotes the land caltrop, a low throny shrub resembling in its spikes the military "crow-foot." Comp. Matthew 7:16, "thistle."

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Alt. of Briar.

Thesaurus

Brier (10 Occurrences)
... of Briar. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BRIER. bri'-er. See THORNS. Multi-Version
Concordance Brier (10 Occurrences). Isaiah 5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. ...
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Briers (17 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the
brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for ...
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Thorn (30 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) Hebrews hedek (Proverbs 15:19), rendered "brier"
in Micah 7:4. Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges. ...
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Myrtle (7 Occurrences)
... It is mentioned as one of the choice plants of the land (Isaiah 41:19). "Instead
of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall come ...
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Prick (2 Occurrences)
... As a verb (= "to pierce with something sharply pointed," "to sting"), it occurs
once in its literal sense: "a pricking brier" (Ezekiel 28:24); and twice in a ...
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Briefly (6 Occurrences)

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Flesh (468 Occurrences)
... (4) chedheq (Proverbs 15:19, English Versions of the Bible "thorns"; Septuagint
akantha; Micah 7:4, English Versions of the Bible "brier"): From former ...
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Visits (4 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Micah 7:4 Their best one 'is' as a brier, The upright one -- than a
thorn-hedge, The day of thy watchmen -- Thy visitation -- hath come. ...
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Occur (13 Occurrences)
... time of the end. (See NAS). Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a brier.
The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of ...
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Grieving (12 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel,
nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them ...
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Bible Concordance

Brier (10 Occurrences)

Isaiah 5:6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 7:24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 7:25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 10:17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

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:
(Root in KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 28:24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Brier

Brier: Figurative

Related Terms

Briers (17 Occurrences)

Thorn (30 Occurrences)

Myrtle (7 Occurrences)

Prick (2 Occurrences)

Briefly (6 Occurrences)

Flesh (468 Occurrences)

Visits (4 Occurrences)

Occur (13 Occurrences)