Strong’s H5544 · Hebrew

סִלּוֹן
çillôwn
sil-lone'

Definition

a prickle (as if pendulous)

Etymology

or סַלּוֹן; from H5541 (סָלָה);

Where the KJV renders it

  • brier
  • thorn

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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