Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2312 - חֵדֶק chedeq (a briar)

Original Word:	חֵדֶק
Transliteration:	chedeq
Definition:	a briar
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(khay'-dek)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

brier, thorn

From an unused root meaning to sting; a prickly plant -- brier, thorn.

Englishman's Concordance

1) brier, thorn, prick
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to sting
Same Word by TWOT Number: 611a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

חֵ֑דֶקnoun [masculine]brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löw^{p. 147, No. 104}; compare Arabic

a kind of night-shade, see Lane⁵³²); — טוֺבָם כַּחֵדֶקMicah 7:4the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier ("" יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה); דֶּרֶךְ עָצֵל כִּמְשֻׂכַת חָ֑דֶקProverbs 15:19the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2312. חָ֫דֶק (chedeq) — 2 Occurrences

Proverbs 15:19
HEB:עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים
NAS: is as a hedge of thorns, But the path
KJV: [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way
INT: of the lazy A hedge of thorns the path of the upright

Micah 7:4
HEB: טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה
NAS: The best of them is like a briar, The most upright
KJV: The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright
INT: the best A briar upright A thorn

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