Lexicon tsen: perhaps a thorn, barb Original Word: צִנִּיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: tsen Phonetic Spelling: (tsane) Short Definition: thorns NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionperhaps a thorn, barb NASB Translationthorns (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ צֵן] noun [masculine] thorn? barb?; — plural צִנִּים Proverbs 22:5 (+ מַּחִים); וְאֶלמִֿצִּנִּים Job 5:5 from (behind) thorns (a protecting thorn hedge, so Di), but very dubious; Che JQ July, 1897, 576 strike out as doublet of צַמִּים; Bev JPhil. xxvi. 305 proposes וְאִנָם צִנִּים [ and as to their wealth, barbs (? barbed spears) takeit]. Strong's thorn From an unused root meaning to be prickly; a thorn; hence, a cactus-hedge -- thorn. |
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