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# חֵדֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2312

**brier** — 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

brier [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2312/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫דֶק: brier [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2312/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] brier (NH id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löwp. 147, No. 104; cf. Arabic حَدَقٌ a kind of nightshare, v. Lane532);—טוֹבָם כְּחֵדֶק Mi 7:4 the best of them (si vera l.) is like the brier (‖ יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה); דֶּרֶךְ עָצֵל כִּמְשֻׂכַת חָ֑דֶק Pr 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.

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: a thorn-bush (1); of thorn\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.19/#tree)

דֶּ֣רֶךְ עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים סְלֻלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].way of.a.sluggard \[is\].like a.hedge of.thorn\[s\] and.\[the\] path of.upright.\[people\] \[is\].cast.up

*JPS 1917:* The way of the sluggard is as though hedged by thorns; but the path of the upright is even.

[Micah 7:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.4/#tree)

טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה י֤וֹם מְצַפֶּ֙יךָ֙ פְּקֻדָּתְךָ֣ בָ֔אָה עַתָּ֥ה תִהְיֶ֖ה מְבוּכָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* their.good person \[is\].like a.thorn-bush an.upright.\[person\] more than.a.thorn.hedge the.day of your.watchmen punishment your it.has.come now it.will.be confusion their

*JPS 1917:* The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge; the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2312.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2312/): 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).