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# brier

noun (briers)

«brier» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A brier is another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#m1)

### In the lessons

in animal tales from the American south, the brier-patch is where the rabbit hides from the fox

### Examples

- "Don't fling me in that brier-patch," said Brer Rabbit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x1)
- The thorns on the brier scratched the boy's legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x2)
- The rabbit ran into the brier-patch and was safe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

A prickly, thorny plant. Briers and thorns are signs of land gone wild and empty.

**Interpretation.** The prophets use briers for a land ruined by sin. Isaiah also pictures them being burned in God's anger.

### Examples

- Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! (Prophets ISA.27.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x1)
- With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. (Prophets ISA.7.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x2)
- For the land of my people whereon thorns and briers come up; yea, for all the houses of joy and the joyous city. (Prophets ISA.32.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «brier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brier/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«brier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/brier.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «brier» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«brier» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/brier.html) on Mova free.