Bramble @ (1.) Hebrew _atad_, Judges:9:14; rendered "thorn," Psalms:58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn. (2.) Hebrew _hoah_, Isaiah:34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in 1Samuel:13:6; "thistles" in 2Kings:14:9, 2Chronicals:25:18, Job:31:40; "thorns" in 2Chronicals:33:11, Cant. 2:2, Hosea:9:6. The word may be regarded as denoting the common thistle, of which there are many species which encumber the corn-fields of Palestine. (See THORNS.)
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