Strong H7898שַׁ֫יִת
thornbush
- Transliteration
- shayith
- Pronunciation
- shah'-yith
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H7896; scrub or {trash} that {is} wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field): - thorns.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: thornbush
Exact lexical definition: thorn-bushes
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: שַׁ֫יִת n.[m.]coll . thorn-bushes
In the Bible
Strong H7898 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- thorn7
First verses
- Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25And 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.
- Isaiah 9:18For 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.
- Isaiah 10:17And 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;
- Isaiah 27:4Fury 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.