4422 brier
Dictionary of Bible Themes

Prickly vegetation, painful to the touch, often seen as a symbol of dereliction.

Ezekiel 28:24

A brier as prickly vegetation

See also

Isaiah 7:23-25
Ezekiel 2:6
Micah 7:2-4
Isaiah 5:6

A brier as a symbol of dereliction

See also

Job 31:38-40
Isaiah 32:11-13; 55:13
Hosea 9:6
Isaiah 10:17

Briers are destroyed by fire

See also

Isaiah 9:18; 27:4
Judges 8:16

Briers as an instrument of punishment

See also

Judges 8:4-7

See also

4522 threshing
Dictionary of Bible Themes
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