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# קוֹץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6975

**thornbush** — used 12 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

thornbush [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6975/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוֹץ: n.m. thorns, thorn-bush Hoph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6975/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 28:24 thorns, thorn-bush; abs. ק׳ Gn 3:18 +; pl. קֹצִים Ex 22:5 +, קוֹצִים Is 33:12 +; cstr. קוֹצֵי Ju 8:7, 16;— thornbush, + דַּרְדַּר (q.v.) Gn 3:18 (J), Ho 10:8; + שָׁמִיר Is 32:13; + בַּרְקָנִים (q.v.), ק׳ הַמִּדְבָּר Ju 8:7, 16; ק׳ alone Ex 22:5 (E); כְּאֵשׁ קוֹצִים ψ 118:12 (sim. of foes); in various fig., Is 33:12 Je 4:3; 12:13. thorn, fig, Ez 28:24 (c. מַכְאִב, v. כאב; ‖ סִלּוֹן q.v.); sim. כְּק׳ מֻנָד 2 S 23:6 (PerlesAnal. 53 conj.. מֹץ, but v. also נוד Hoph.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thorns (4); thorn\[s\] (3); (the) thorns (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 33:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.12/#tree)

וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.will.be peoples burnings of.lime thorns cut.down with (the) fire they.will.be.kindled

*JPS 1917:* And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

[2 Samuel 23:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.6/#tree)

וּבְלִיַּ֕עַל כְּק֥וֹץ מֻנָ֖ד כֻּלָּ֑הַם כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְיָ֖ד יִקָּֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and a.worthless.person \[is\].like thorn\[s\] \[which.is\].chased.away of.them all (dm) not in a.hand people.will.take

*JPS 1917:* But the ungodly, they are as thorns thrust away, all of them, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6975.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6975/): 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).