Dictionary of Bible Themes  »  4000 Creation  »  4400 Vegetation and food  »  4422 brier

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

A brier as prickly vegetation

Ezekiel 28:24 See also Isaiah 7:23-25; Ezekiel 2:6; Micah 7:2-4

A brier as a symbol of dereliction

Isaiah 5:6 See also Job 31:38-40; Isaiah 32:11-13; Isaiah 55:13; Hosea 9:6

Briers are destroyed by fire

Isaiah 10:17 See also Isaiah 9:18; Isaiah 27:4

Briers as an instrument of punishment

Judges 8:16 See also Judges 8:4-7

See also

4520  thorns