בַּרְקָן
barkan · brier
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1303 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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barkan (בַּרְקָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “brier”.
A plant with hard thorns. The word appears only in Judges 8.
How to say it
bar·kan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Hard-thorned plants of the wilderness.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 8:7
Gideon said, “Therefore, when YHWH gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with the briers.”
- Judges 8:16
He took the elders of the city, and the thorns of the wilderness and the briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.