Lexical Summary barqanim: briars Original Word: בַּרְקָןTransliteration: barqanim Phonetic Spelling: (bar-kwan') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: briars Meaning: a thorn Strong's Concordance brier From baraq; a thorn (perhaps as burning brightly) -- brier. see HEBREW baraq Brown-Driver-Briggs H1303. barqanim בַּרְקָנִים noun masculine plural briers (so Vrss Ki and others, also Stu q. v., Be, v unknown; compare "" קוֺצִים; > JDMich, Thes and others threshing-sledges, furnished with sharp (glittering) stones) Judges 8:7 וְאֶתהַֿבּ הַמִּדְבָּר אֶתקֿוֺצֵי ׳אֶתבְּֿשַׂרְכֶם וְדַשְׁתִּ֫י (see also דושׁ) and I will thresh your flesh together with the thorns of the wilderness and the briers; 8:16 סֻכּוֺת אַנְשֵׁי אֵת בָּהֶם הַבּ וְאֶת הַמִּדְבָּר וְאֶתקֿוֺצֵי הָעִיר אֶתזִֿקְנֵי ׳וַיִּקַּח וַיֹּדַע (read וַיָּדָשׁ for ᵐ5 וַיֹּדַע BuRS 114; compare Stu Be) and he took the thorns of the wilderness and the briers and threshed, etc. |