Lexicon tribolos: a thistle Original Word: τρίβολος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: tribolos Phonetic Spelling: (trib'-ol-os) Short Definition: a thistle Definition: a thistle. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom treis and belosDefinitiona thistle NASB Translationthistles (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5146: τρίβολοςτρίβολος, τριβολου, ὁ ( τρεῖς and βάλλω ((cf. βέλος), three-pointed)), a thistle, a prickly wild plant, hurtful to other plants: Matthew 7:16; Hebrews 6:8. ( Aristophanes, others; the Sept. for דַּרְדַּר, Genesis 3:18; Hosea 10:8; for צְנִינִים thorns, Proverbs 22:5.) (Cf. B. D. under the word, Thorns and Thistles, 4; Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 302.)
Strong's brier, thistle. From treis and belos; properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop) -- brier, thistle. see GREEK treis see GREEK belos |
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