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(1.) Hebrew atad, Judg 9:14; rendered “thorn,” Ps 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn.
(2.) Hebrew hoah, Isa 34:13 (R.V. “thistles”); “thickets” in 1 Sam 13:6; “thistles” in 2 Kgs 14:9, 2 Kgs 14:2 Chr. 25:18, Job 31:40; “thorns” in 2 Chr 33:11, Song 2:2, Hos 9:6. The word may be regarded as denoting the common thistle, of which there are many species which encumber the corn-fields of Palestine. (See Thorns.)
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
