PRICK

prik: As a noun (= any slender pointed thing, a thorn, a sting) it translates two words:

(1) sekh, a "thorn" or "prickle." Only in Numbers 33:55, "those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes," i.e. "shall be a source of painful trouble to you."

(2) kentron "an iron goad" for urging on oxen and other beasts of burden: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" (the King James Version of Acts 9:5, where the Revised Version (British and American) omits the whole phrase, following the best manuscripts, including Codices Sinaiticus, A, B, C, E; the King James Version of Acts 26:14, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "goad," margin "Greek: `goads' "), i.e. to offer vain and perilous resistance. See GOAD. As a verb (= "to pierce with something sharply pointed," "to sting"), it occurs once in its literal sense: "a pricking brier" (Ezekiel 28:24); and twice in a figurative sense: "I was pricked in my heart" (Psalm 73:21); "They were pricked in their heart" (Acts 2:37, katanusso, Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) compungo; compare English word "compunction").

D. Miall Edwards

1. (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

2. (n.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.

3. (n.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

4. (n.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

5. (n.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

6. (n.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.

7. (n.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

8. (n.) The footprint of a hare.

9. (n.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

10. (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.

11. (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.

12. (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.

13. (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.

14. (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.

15. (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

16. (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.

17. (n.) To render acid or pungent.

18. (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.

19. (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

20. (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

21. (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

22. (n.) To nick.

23. (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

24. (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.

25. (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

26. (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.

3992. maar -- to prick, to pain
... << 3991, 3992. maar. 3993 >>. to prick, to pain. Transliteration: maar Phonetic
Spelling: (maw-ar') Short Definition: malignancy. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6796. tsanin -- a thorn, prick
... << 6795, 6796. tsanin. 6797 >>. a thorn, prick. Transliteration: tsanin Phonetic
Spelling: (tsaw-neen') Short Definition: thorns. Word ...
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7899. sek -- a thorn
... prick. From cakak in the sense of suwk; a brier (as of a hedge) -- prick. see HEBREW
cakak. see HEBREW suwk. << 7898, 7899. sek. 7900 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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8150. shanan -- to whet, sharpen
... prick, sharpen, teach diligently, whet. A primitive root; to point (transitive
or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively ...
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5572. seneh -- perhaps blackberry bush
... Word Usage bush (6). bush. From an unused root meaning to prick; a bramble --
bush. << 5571, 5572. seneh. 5573 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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7053. qilleshon -- perhaps fine point
... forks* (1). fork. From an unused root meaning to prick; a prong, ie Hay-fork --
fork. << 7052, 7053. qilleshon. 7054 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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5285. naatsuts -- a thorn bush
... thorn. From an unused root meaning to prick; probably a brier; by implication, a
thicket of thorny bushes -- thorn. << 5284, 5285. naatsuts. 5286 >>. ...
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6790. Tsin -- a desert area which included Kadesh-barnea
... Zin. From an unused root meaning to prick; a crag; Tsin, a part of the Desert --
Zin. << 6789, 6790. Tsin. 6791 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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3554. kavah -- to burn, scorch, brand
... burn. A primitive root; properly, to prick or penetrate; hence, to blister (as smarting
or eating into) -- burn. << 3553, 3554. kavah. 3555 >>. Strong's Numbers
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5570. Senaah -- a family of returning exiles
... Senaah, Hassenaah with the article. From an unused root meaning to prick; thorny;
Senaah, a place in Palestine -- Senaah, Hassenaah (with the article). ...
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