Thorns in the Bible: 50 times in the King James Version | Thy Word is True

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Thorns KJV

“Thorns” is in the King James Bible 50 times, in 47 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

ἄκανθα akantha 14 times
קוץ קץ qôts qôts 10 times
שׁית shayith 7 times
סיר סירה סרה sı̂yr sı̂yrâh sirâh 4 times
חוח chôach 3 times
ἀκάνθινος akanthinos 2 times
צן tsên 2 times
צנין צנן tsânı̂yn tsânin 2 times
אטד 'âṭâd 1 time
חדק chêdeq 1 time
נעצוּץ na‛ătsûts 1 time
סלּון סלּון sillôn sallôn 1 time
No Strong's number mostly supplied words 1 time

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קמּשׁון qimmâshôn 1 time

translating H5518

4 verses translating H5518 Show all

Ecclesiastes

7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Isaiah

34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

Hosea

2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

Nahum

1:10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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