STRONGS NUMBER H7898


Word Summary
shayith: thornbushes
Original Word: שַׁיִת
Transliteration: shayith
Phonetic Spelling: (shah'-yith)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: thornbushes
Meaning: scrub, trash, wild growth of weeds, briers
Strong's Concordance
thorns

From shiyth; scrub or trash, i.e. Wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field) -- thorns.

see HEBREW shiyth

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7898. shayith

שַׁ֫יִתnoun [masculine] collective thorn-bushes (connection with above √ dubious; DietrAbh.73 compare (improbable) שׁאהdevastate, אִיָּהruin, whence ׳שׁ‎ wild, rough growth); — always with שָׁמִיר‎: absolute ׳שׁIsaiah 7:23-24, 9:17; 27:4 (compare Du); שָׁ֑יִת5:6; 7:25; suffix שִׁיתוֺ10:17 (figurative of Assyr.).