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# צֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6791

**thorn** — used 3 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

thorn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צֵן²: thorn? barb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thorn? barb?;—pl. צִנִּים Pr 22:5 (+ פַּחִים); וְאֶל־מִצִּנִּים Jb 5:5 from (behind) thorns (a protecting thorn hedge, so Di), but very dub.; CheJQ July, 1897, 576 del. as doublet of צַמִּים; BevJPhil. xxvl, 305 proposes וְאֹנָם צִנִּים \[and as to their wealth, barbs (? barbed spears) take it\].

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thorns (2); barbs (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.5/#tree)

צִנִּ֣ים פַּ֭חִים בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ עִקֵּ֑שׁ שׁוֹמֵ֥ר נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ יִרְחַ֥ק מֵהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* thorns snares \[are\].in.\[the\] path of.a.perverse.\[person\] \[one.who\].guards self his he.will.be.far from them

*JPS 1917:* Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.

[Job 5:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.5.5/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִיר֨וֹ ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְאֶֽל־מִצִּנִּ֥ים יִקָּחֵ֑הוּ וְשָׁאַ֖ף צַמִּ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who harvest his \[the\].hungry he.eats and to from thorns he takes.it and it.pants.for a.snare wealth their

*JPS 1917:* Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6791.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6791/): 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).