shayit · thornbush, brush

What it means

shayit (שַׁיִת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thornbush, brush”.

Thornbushes, wild brush: the weeds that grow on neglected land.

How to say it

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

1. Prickly plants growing on neglected ground.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Isaiah 5:6

  And I will make it a waste; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will come up; and the clouds I will command not to rain rain on it.

• Isaiah 7:23

  And it will happen on that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver will become briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:24

  With arrows and with bow one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.

• Isaiah 7:25

  And all the mountains that used to be hoed with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; and it will become a place for letting loose oxen and for trampling by sheep.

• Isaiah 9:18

  For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours briers and thorns, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll up in a column of smoke.

• Isaiah 10:17

  And the light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

• Isaiah 27:4

  Fury I do not have. Oh that someone would give me briers and thorns in battle! I would march against it, I would set it on fire all together.