חֵדֶק
chêdeq · H2312 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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thorns
Plant with thorns; regarded as useless; symbol of hardship
ExamplesProverbs 15:19 The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, But the path of the upright is a highway.
Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a thorn bush, The most upright like a thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your punishment is coming. Then their confusion will occur.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְשׂוּכָהthorn hedge 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- קוֹץ qôwts · H6975 · thorn, brier, thornbush
- Common Hebrew term for thorny plants; קוֹץ and חֵדֶק are both prickly, troublesome vegetation terms used in similar contexts, often appearing in lists of undesirable wild growth.
- נַעֲצוּץ naʻătsûwts · H5285 · thorn, thistle, brier
- Hebrew term for thorny/prickly plants; נַעֲצוּץ denotes troublesome thorny vegetation similar in botanical category and metaphorical use to חֵדֶק.
- דַּרְדַּר dardar · H1863 · thorn, thistle, brier
- Hebrew term for prickly, troublesome vegetation; דַּרְדַּר appears paired with other thorn-terms (e.g., Gen 3:18) and represents the same category of unwanted thorny growth as חֵדֶק.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἄκανθα ákantha · G173 · thorn plant, thistle, brier
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew thorny plants; ἄκανθα is the most common Greek rendering for various Hebrew thorn/brier terms in LXX, representing the same botanical/metaphorical concept of prickly, troublesome vegetation.
- τρίβολος tríbolos · G5146 · thorn plant, thistle, brier
- Greek term for thorny, prickly plants used in LXX to render various Hebrew thorn/brier words; τρίβολος denotes troublesome thorny vegetation similar in sense to חֵדֶק.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Plants001002007001
- The noun names a thorny bramble or brier, used figuratively for the lazy person's overgrown path (Proverbs 15:19) and for the corrupt state of the upright, likened to a thorn hedge (Micah 7:4).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2312. chedeq חֵ֑דֶק noun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löwp. 147,…
חֵ֑דֶק noun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löwp. 147, No. 104; compare Arabic a kind of night-shade, see Lane532); — כַּחֵדֶק טוֺבָם Mic 7:4 the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier (|| מִמְּסוּכָה יָשָׁר); חָ֑דֶק כִּמְשֻׂכַת עָצֵל דֶּרֶךְ Pro 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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