Lexical Summary chedeq: a briar Original Word: חֵדֶקTransliteration: chedeq Phonetic Spelling: (khay'-dek) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a briar Meaning: a prickly plant Strong's Concordance brier, thorn From an unused root meaning to sting; a prickly plant -- brier, thorn. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2312. chedeq חֵ֑דֶק noun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löwp. 147, No. 104; compare Arabic a kind of night-shade, see Lane532); — כַּחֵדֶק טוֺבָם Micah 7:4 the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier ("" מִמְּסוּכָה יָשָׁר); חָ֑דֶק כִּמְשֻׂכַת עָצֵל דֶּרֶךְ Proverbs 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge. |
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