STRONGS NUMBER H2312


Word Summary
chedeq: a briar
Original Word: חֵדֶק
Transliteration: chedeq
Phonetic Spelling: (khay'-dek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a briar
Meaning: a prickly plant
Strong's Concordance
brier, thorn

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2312. chedeq

חֵ֑דֶקnoun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חִדְקָא‎ Löwp. 147, No. 104; compare Arabic a kind of night-shade, see Lane532); — כַּחֵדֶק טוֺבָםMicah 7:4 the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier ("" מִמְּסוּכָה יָשָׁר‎); חָ֑דֶק כִּמְשֻׂכַת עָצֵל דֶּרֶךְProverbs 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.