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Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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Judges 8:7,16: "Gideon said, I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." Gesenius for "briers" translates "with threshing machines with stones or flints underneath," barquan being iron pyrites. But the KJV is supported by the old versions; prickly plants such as grow on strong ground. In Ezekiel 2:6 Gesenius translates as margin "rebels"; "though rebellions men like thorns be with thee." But "briers" answers better to "thorns" which follows: sarubim from saaraph , "to sting." The wicked are often so called (2 Samuel 23:6; Song of Solomon 2:2). In Isaiah 55:13 "instead of the brier (sirpad ) shall come up the myrtle tree." The sirpad , from saaraph "to sting," and saphad "to prick," is the nettle.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Brier'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​b/brier.html. 1949.
 
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