שַׁ֫יִת
sha.yit
“thornbush”
Definition
scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)
from H7896 (שִׁית);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
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Occurrences
שַׁ֫יִת appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And the Light of Israel will become a fire,and its Holy One a flame.In a single day it will burn and devourAssyria’s thorns and thistles.
I am not angry.If only thorns and briers confronted Me,I would march and trample them,I would burn them to the ground.
I will make it a wasteland,neither pruned nor cultivated,and thorns and briers will grow up.I will command the cloudsthat rain shall not fall on it.”
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.
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.