Word

אָטָד

ʼâṭâd · H329 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Place

Atadfirst named in Genesis 50:102 verses

Thing

BoxthornWild Trees and Shrubs3 verses

Meanings

boxthorn, bramble, thorn, thornbush

A tree that grows to 5 meters (17 feet), has small leaves forming an oval crown, and very sharp thorns; Lycaeum europaeum (,, 1:496); or possibly a thorny bush of the Rubus genus, which includes several hundred species (2:80)

Examples
Judges 9:14 “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You, come, reign over us!’
Judges 9:15 “And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out of the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

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 it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אָמַרto say 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בִּיןto understand, to discern 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 2
מִןfrom 2

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

סְנֶה çᵉneh · H5572 · bush, shrub: Both אָטָד and סְנֶה denote thorny bushes or brambles in Hebrew; סְנֶה appears in contexts like the burning bush (Exod 3:2) and in lists of wild, prickly vegetation, overlapping semantically with אָטָד as terms for uncultivated thorny plants.
קוֹץ qôwts · H6975 · thorn, brier, thornbush: קוֹץ is a common Hebrew term for thorns and thorn-bushes, used alongside אָטָד in references to wild, prickly vegetation; both denote plants characterized by thorns and associated with wastelands or cursed ground.
חוֹחַ chôwach · H2336 · thorn, thistle, hook: חוֹחַ denotes thorny or prickly plants, often paired with thistles in contexts of agricultural curse or desolation; semantically very close to אָטָד as both refer to wild thorny vegetation unsuitable for cultivation.

In the other Testament 1 word

ἄκανθα ákantha · G173 · thorn plant, thistle, brier: Greek ἄκανθα is the standard LXX translation equivalent for Hebrew אָטָד in botanical contexts, denoting thorny plants and brambles; both refer to prickly, wild shrubs used metaphorically and literally in Scripture.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Plants001002007001: אָטָד names the bramble or thornbush, as the bramble in Jotham's fable and the site called the threshing floor of Atad.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H329. atad אָטָד noun masculineJdg 9:15 bramble, buck-thorn (compare Che Psa 58:10)…

H329. atad
אָטָד noun masculineJdg 9:15 bramble, buck-thorn (compare Che Psa 58:10) (rhamnus, Arabic Assyrian e‰idu see DlW, No. 153, Aramaic אַטְדָּא compare LöwNo. 15) contracted עֵצִים Jdg 9:14-15, (twice in verse) (personified, in fable); Psa 58:10 as fuel (in figurative, compare Che); הָא ׳כְּגֹרֶן, noun, of a location, Gen 5:10-11, (see גֹּרֶן & מצרים אבל).
אטט Arabic to emit a moaning or creaking sound (compare AWLex. 36 GesJes. i. 604 f Lanei. 66).
[אִטִּי Ol412]
noun masculine mutterer, plural אִטִּים Isa 19:3 mutterers (|| יִדְּעֹנִים אֹבוֺת,) i.e. either ventriloquists or whisperers of charms (compare Isa 8:19; Isa 29:4).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Plants4 occurrences

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