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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Thorn
Scofield Reference Index
• Thorn
Thompson Chain Reference
• Thorns
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Thistles & Thorns
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Thorns
• Thistles and Thorns
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Thorn in the Flesh
• Thorn
• Crown of Thorns
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Thorn
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Thorn in the Flesh
• Crown of Thorns
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Thorns, Thistles, Etc
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Thorns Thistles
• Thorns
• Thorn in the Flesh
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King James Dictionary
• Thorn
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Thorns, Thistles
• Thorn in the Flesh
• Crown of Thorns
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Thorns, Crown of
• Thorne, John, Blessed
• Thorn, Glastonbury
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Crown of Thorns
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Thorns
• Crown of Thorns
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Thorn, Thorns
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Thorn in Paul's Flesh
Wilson's Bible Types
• Thorn
Webster Dictionary
• Thorn-Headed
• Thorn
• Lasstonbury Thorn
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Thorn
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Thorn (Botany)
• Thorn, Germany
• Thorne
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Crown of Thorns
• Thorn in the Flesh
• Thorns; Thistles; Etc.
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Thorns and Thistles
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Crown of Thorns
• Thorn
• Thorn in the Flesh
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Thorn
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Crown of Thorns
• Feast of the Crown of Thorns
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Thorn
• Thorns and Thistles
Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܽܘܒ݁ܶܐ
• ܥܰܘܙܢܳܝܳܐ
• ܫܰܦ݂ܝܳܐ
• ἄκανθα
• ἀκάνθινος
• βάτοσ
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• אָטָד , אָטָד
• דֶּבֶר , דֶּבֶר
• חֵדֶק
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(1):

(n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

(2):

(v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn.

(3):

(n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

(4):

(n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

(5):

(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.