Bible Thesaurus: Thorny

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Thorny (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny
wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. ...Thorny (3 Occurrences). ...
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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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Lizard (3 Occurrences)
... meaning, but probably denoting four kinds of lizards." 2. Lizards of Palestine:
Among the many lizards of Palestine, the monitor and thorny-tailed lizard are ...
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Tortoise (1 Occurrence)
... (the King James Version) (tsabh, the Revised Version (British and American) "great
lizard"; compare the Arabic word, dabb, the thorny-tailed lizard): The word ...
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Bush (14 Occurrences)
... From its etymology ceneh clearly denotes a "thorny" plant, as does the
corresponding batos in the Septuagint and New Testament. ...
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Flesh (468 Occurrences)
... Any pedestrian in Palestine must be familiar with the ubiquitous and
troublesome thorny shrubs and thistles which abound there. ...
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Wreath (21 Occurrences)
... Matthew 27:29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and
they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted ...
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Twisted (79 Occurrences)
... Matthew 27:29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and
they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted ...
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Thorns (56 Occurrences)
... mention no less than twenty-two words in the Bible signifying thorny plants, and
the word akantha in the New Testament Greek is a generic and not a specific ...
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Twigs (8 Occurrences)
... Matthew 27:29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and
they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted ...
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Bible Concordance

Thorny (3 Occurrences)

Matthew 27:29 They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"
(WEY)

Mark 15:17 they arrayed Him in crimson, placed on His head a wreath of thorny twigs which they had twisted,
(WEY)

John 19:5 Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, 'Lo, the man!'
(YLT)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

2. (superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.

Greek

174. akanthinos -- of thorns
... Word Origin from akantha Definition of thorns NASB Word Usage thorns (2). of thorns,
thorny. From akantha; thorny -- of thorns. see GREEK akantha. ...
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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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Strong's Hebrew

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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2738. charul -- (a kind of weed), perhaps chickpea
... khaw-rool'}; apparently, a passive participle of an unused root probably meaning
to be prickly; properly, pointed, ie A bramble or other thorny weed: nettle. ...
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5570. Senaah -- a family of returning exiles
... Senaah, Hassenaah with the article. From an unused root meaning to prick; thorny;
Senaah, a place in Palestine -- Senaah, Hassenaah (with the article). ...
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Library

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, Etc. , Where the Lord ...
... 2. Now ye know that those three places mentioned yesterday where the seed did not
grow, "the way side," "the stony ground," and "the thorny places," are the ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxiii on the words.htm

Commandment Sixth. How to Recognise the Two Spirits Attendant on ...
... crooked. For the crooked path has no roads, but has many pathless places
and stumbling-blocks in it, and it is rough and thorny. ...
/.../the pastor books first second third/commandment sixth how to recognise.htm

The Sower Cont.
... St. Paul found a thorny soil in Corinth which came behind in no gift, if only gifts
had been graces, but was indulgent, factious and selfish, puffed up amid ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 4 3-9 14-20 the sower 2.htm

Of the Condolence and Complacency of Love in the Passion of Our ...
... I see him, this dear lover"he is a fire of love burning in a thorny bush of sorrow,
and I am the same: I am all inflamed with love amid the thorny bushes of ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter v of the condolence.htm

January the Twenty-First the Value of one Soul
... He "goeth into the mountain and seeketh!" The Eastern shepherd goes out in tempest,
and in rocky ravine, or in thorny scrub that tears the hands and feet, he ...
/.../january the twenty-first the value.htm

The Long, Rough Road He Trod
... For there was thorny roughness at the sides as He pushed through, as well as steep
roughness under foot. And it may not seem so long at first. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on following the christ/the long rough road he.htm

Christ Crucified.
... 2, 3. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns. The crown of thorns was probably
a wreath of thorny leaves something like the common cactus. ...
/.../johnson/the new testament commentary vol iii john/christ crucified.htm

Trust in God --True Wisdom
... had passed over man's head, his discovered nakedness, pains of body, weariness,
toil, expulsion from Paradise, and tilling a thankless, thorny land, taught man ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/trust in godtrue wisdom.htm

It is Said that on a Recent Occasion Where the Letters of ...
... For instance, Chrysippus and Antipater occupy themselves with thorny questions:
Demosthenes and Æschines speak with the voice of thunder against each other ...
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The Charge to the Soldier of the Lord
... to be the will of God, without finding out that all the 'Canaanites' are not dead
yet; but that there are enough of them left to make a very thorny life for ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the charge to the soldier.htm

Subtopics

Thorny

Related Terms

Thorn (30 Occurrences)

Lizard (3 Occurrences)

Tortoise (1 Occurrence)

Bush (14 Occurrences)

Flesh (468 Occurrences)

Wreath (21 Occurrences)

Twisted (79 Occurrences)

Thorns (56 Occurrences)

Twigs (8 Occurrences)