חוֹחַchôwach/kho'-akh/
HebrewH233611 occurrences (KJV)
a thorn; by analogy, a ring forthe nose
KJV renders it: bramble, thistle, thorn.
Where it appears(showing the first 9 of 11)
- 2 Kgs 14:9Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
- 2 Chr 25:18Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
- 2 Chr 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- Job 31:40let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
- Job 41:2Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
- Prov 26:9Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
- Song 2:2As a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
- Isa 34:13Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
- Hos 9:6For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.