חֵדֶק
chedek · thorn, briar
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2312 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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chedek (חֵדֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thorn, briar”.
A thorn bush, a plant with prickles.
How to say it
che·dek
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
- Prickly bushes that wound.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- like a briar hedge ×1
- thorns ×1
Where it appears
- Proverbs 15:19
The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a briar hedge, the upright one worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, your punishment, has come; now will be their confusion.