2312. chedeq
Strong's Concordance
chedeq: a briar
Original Word: חָ֫דֶק
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: chedeq
Phonetic Spelling: (khay'-dek)
Short Definition: briar
Brown-Driver-Briggs
חֵ֑דֶק noun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא Löwp. 147, No. 104; compare Arabic a kind of night-shade, see Lane532); — טוֺבָם כַּחֵדֶק Micah 7:4 the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier ("" יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה); דֶּרֶךְ עָצֵל כִּמְשֻׂכַת חָ֑דֶק Proverbs 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
brier, thorn

From an unused root meaning to sting; a prickly plant -- brier, thorn.

Forms and Transliterations
חָ֑דֶק חדק כְּחֵ֔דֶק כחדק Chadek ḥā·ḏeq ḥāḏeq kə·ḥê·ḏeq keChedek kəḥêḏeq
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2 Occurrences


ḥā·ḏeq — 1 Occ.
kə·ḥê·ḏeq — 1 Occ.

Proverbs 15:19
HEB: עָ֭צֵל כִּמְשֻׂ֣כַת חָ֑דֶק וְאֹ֖רַח יְשָׁרִ֣ים
NAS: is as a hedge of thorns, But the path
KJV: [man is] as an hedge of thorns: but the way
INT: of the lazy A hedge of thorns the path of the upright

Micah 7:4
HEB: טוֹבָ֣ם כְּחֵ֔דֶק יָשָׁ֖ר מִמְּסוּכָ֑ה
NAS: The best of them is like a briar, The most upright
KJV: The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright
INT: the best A briar upright A thorn

2 Occurrences

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