Strong’s H5285 · Hebrew

נַעֲצוּץ
naʻătsûwts
nah-ats-oots'

Definition

probably a brier; by implication, a thicket of thorny bushes

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to prick;

How the KJV renders it

  • 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.