Thorn:
(1.) Heb. hedek (Pro 15:19), rendered "brier" in Mic 7:4. Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges. This is probably the so-called "apple of Sodom," which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley. "It is a shrubby plant, from 3 to 5 feet high, with very branching stems, thickly clad with spines, like those of the English brier, with leaves very large and woolly on the under side, and thorny on the midriff."
(2.) Heb. kotz (Gen 3:18; Hsa 10:8), rendered akantha by the LXX. In the New Testament this word akantha is also rendered "thorns" (Mat 7:16; 13:7; Hbr 6:8). The word seems to denote any thorny or prickly plant (Jer 12:13). It has been identified with the Ononis spinosa by some.
(3.) Heb. na'atzutz (Isa 7:19; 55:13). This word has been interpreted as denoting the Zizyphus spina Christi, or the jujube-tree. It is supposed by some that the crown of thorns placed in wanton cruelty by the Roman soldiers on our Saviour's brow before his crucifixion was plaited of branches of this tree. It overruns a great part of the Jordan valley. It is sometimes called the lotus-tree. "The thorns are long and sharp and recurved, and often create a festering wound." It often grows to a great size. (See CROWN OF THORNS.)
(4.) Heb. atad (Psa 58:9) is rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate by Rhamnus, or Lycium Europoeum, a thorny shrub, which is common all over Palestine. From its resemblance to the box it is frequently called the box-thorn.
Thorn: The Ground Cursed With
Gen 3:18
Thorn: Used
As an awl,
Job 41:2;
for fuel,
Psa 58:9; 118:12; Ecc 7:6.
Thorn: Hedges Formed Of:
Hsa 2:6; Mic 7:4
Thorn: Crown Of
Mockingly put on Jesus' head,
Mat 27:29; Mar 15:17; Jhn 19:2, 5.
Thorn: Figurative:
Of afflictions,
Num 33:55; 2Cr 12:7.
Of the adversities of the wicked,
Pro 22:5.
Of the evils that spring from the heart to choke the truth,
Mat 13:7, 22.
Crown of Thorns:
our Lord was crowned with a, in mockery by the Romans (Mat 27:29). The object of Pilate's guard in doing this was probably to insult, and not specially to inflict pain. There is nothing to show that the shrub thus used was, as has been supposed, the spina Christi, which could have been easily woven into a wreath. It was probably the thorny nabk, which grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and whose flexible, pliant, and round branches could easily be platted into the form of a crown. (See THORN, 3.)
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