kots · thorn

What it means

kots (קוֹץ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thorn”.

Thornbush.

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. A desert bush covered with thorns that wounds whoever touches it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• thorns ×8
• thorn ×2
• thornbushes ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 3:18

  And thorns and thistles it will make sprout for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

• Exodus 22:6

  When fire breaks out and catches thorns, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who kindled the fire shall surely repay.

• 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.

• 2 Samuel 23:6

  But the wicked are like thorns thrown away, all of them, for they are not taken with the hand.

• Psalms 118:12

  They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.

• Isaiah 32:13

  on the ground of my people thornbushes and briers come up; yes, on all the houses of joy, the exultant town.

• Isaiah 33:12

  And peoples will be burnings of lime, thornbushes cut down, in the fire they will be set ablaze.

• Jeremiah 4:3

  For thus says YHWH to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: “Break up for yourselves fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.

• Jeremiah 12:13

  They have sown wheat and thorns they have reaped; they have worn themselves out; it does not profit them. And be ashamed of your harvests because of the burning anger of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 28:24

  And there will not be anymore for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from all those around them who despise them; and they will know that I am Adonai YHWH.’

• Hosea 10:8

  And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; thorn and thistle will come up on their altars; and they will say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”