H7898 - שַׁיִת (shayith)

H7898 שַׁיִת (shayith) shah'-yith

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

thornbush

Strong's Definition

scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)

Derivation: from H7896 (שִׁית);

KJV Usage: thorns.

TWOT Reference: 2380c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) thorn bushes

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G173 G1643 G2562

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

thorn bushes

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שַׁיִת shayith BDB Definition: 1) thorn bushes Part of Speech: noun masculine collective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7896 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2380c Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

5:6 7:23 7:24 7:25 9:18 10:17 27:4

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.

Isaiah 7:23

And on that day, in every place that had... a thousand vines worth a thousand [shekels] of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

Isaiah 7:24

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be [covered with] briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:25

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled... by the hoe; they will become [places] for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.