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# דַּרְדַּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1863

**thistles** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thistles [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1863/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּרְדַּר²: thistles [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1863/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thistles (coll.) (Arabic دردار, still current in Pal., Löwp. 100; Ethiopic ደንደር ) קוֹץ וְדַרְדַּר Gn 3:18 (J) Ho 10:8 symbol of wildness, desert.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thistle\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.18/#tree)

וְק֥וֹץ וְדַרְדַּ֖ר תַּצְמִ֣יחַֽ לָ֑ךְ וְאָכַלְתָּ֖ אֶת־עֵ֥שֶׂב הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and thorn\[s\] and thistle\[s\] it.will.cause.to.sprout for you and you.will.eat (et) the.vegetation of the.field

*JPS 1917:* Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

[Hosea 10:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.8/#tree)

וְנִשְׁמְד֞וּ בָּמ֣וֹת אָ֗וֶן חַטַּאת֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל ק֣וֹץ וְדַרְדַּ֔ר יַעֲלֶ֖ה עַל־מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֑ם וְאָמְר֤וּ לֶֽהָרִים֙ כַּסּ֔וּנוּ וְלַגְּבָע֖וֹת נִפְל֥וּ עָלֵֽינוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be.destroyed \[the\].high.places of.wickedness the.sin of.Israel thorn\[s\] and thistle\[s\] it.will.grow.up over altars their and they.will.say to the mountains cover us and to the hills fall on us

*JPS 1917:* The high places also of Aven shall be destroyed, even the sin of Israel. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains: 'Cover us', and to the hills: 'Fall on us.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1863.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1863/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).