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<p> &nbsp;Isaiah 5:6 (b) [[Briers]] are symbols of the little bothersome troubles that hurt and hinder GOD's people. [[God]] promised to send them on [[Israel]] because of their disobedience. Briers are small, not as large as thorns, but they are very painful and troublesome. (See also under [[Thorns,]] [[Thistles,]] [[Nettles]] and [[Brambles.]] See also &nbsp;Isaiah 7:23; &nbsp;Isaiah 32:13; &nbsp;Ezekiel 28:24). </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 9:18 (b) GOD's wrath is to be kindled so greatly that He would cease dealing with His people by small punishments, but rather would abandon them to their enemies. (See also &nbsp;Isaiah 10:17). </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 27:4 (b) Man's antagonism to [[God]] is compared to the little brier which is so easily destroyed, and which is so inconsequential. (See also &nbsp;Ezekiel 2:6). </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 55:13 (c) Here the brier is a type of human troubles which are to be replaced by GOD's blessings. (See under [[Thistle).]] </p> <p> &nbsp;Micah 7:4 (a) The brier in this case represents a little, weak, frail man who thinks he is somebody, when he really is a cipher ( &nbsp;Galatians 6:3). This man sets himself up against [[God,]] and [[God]] in derision compares him to the little, weak, troublesome brier that is soon destroyed. </p> <p> &nbsp;Hebrews 6:8 (b) Briers in this case represent hateful, harmful and hurtful expressions that come from the heart of one who knows better, and who should be producing fruit and flowers for [[God.]] [[God]] does not bless briers. The one who produces them will surely come under the curse of [[God.]] </p>

<p> &nbsp;Judges 8:7,16: "Gideon said, [[I]] will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." [[Gesenius]] for "briers" translates "with threshing machines with stones or flints underneath," barquan being iron pyrites. But the [[Kjv]] is supported by the old versions; prickly plants such as grow on strong ground. In &nbsp;Ezekiel 2:6 Gesenius translates as margin "rebels"; "though rebellions men like thorns be with thee." But "briers" answers better to "thorns" which follows: sarubim from saaraph , "to sting." The wicked are often so called (&nbsp;2 Samuel 23:6; &nbsp;Song of [[Solomon]] 2:2). In &nbsp;Isaiah 55:13 "instead of the brier (sirpad ) shall come up the myrtle tree." The sirpad , from saaraph "to sting," and saphad "to prick," is the nettle. </p>

<li> In &nbsp;Hebrews 6:8 the Greek word (tribolos) so rendered means "three-pronged," and denotes the land caltrop, a low throny shrub resembling in its spikes the military "crow-foot." Compare &nbsp; Matthew 7:16 , "thistle." <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from [[M.G.]] Easton [[M.A.,]] [[D.D.,]] Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Brier'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/brier.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> [[Bri'Er,]] n. </p> 1. In a general sense, a prickly plant or shrub. Is.v 6 &nbsp;Judges 8.7 . 2. In a limited sense, the sweet-brier and the wild-brier, species of the rose.

<p> is the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the following words in certain passages, most of them being rendered " thorn" in others. (See [[Thorn]]). </p> <p> '''1.''' חֵדֶק '', che'dek'' (from its ''stinging),'' &nbsp;Micah 7:4; "thorn," &nbsp;Proverbs 15:19; apparently the Arabic chadak, thought to be the Melongena spinosa, i.e. Solanumn insanum of Linn., or " prickly mad-apple" (Abulfadli, op. Celsii Hierob. ii, 40 sq.). From both passages it appears that the Heb. word denotes a species of thorn shrubs which were used for enclosures or hedges. Yet this characteristic is much too general to determine from it with any precision what particular species of thorny plants is denoted by the [[Hebrew]] word. But the plant whose fruit is the love-apple or mad-apple (a species of small melon) is of the family of nightshades (solanese), and not at all suitable for making a hedge. </p> <p> '''2.''' סִלּוֹן, ''sallon''' ("thorn," Ezekiel ii, 6), or סַלּוֹן, ''sillon''' (so called as being a pendulous or twig-like extremity), &nbsp;Ezekiel 28:24; prop. a ''prickle,'' such as are found on the shoots of the palm-tree, and called in Arabic ''sultan,'' being the thorns that precede the putting forth of the foliage and branches. </p> <p> '''3.''' סרְפָּד, ''sirpad','' in &nbsp;Isaiah 55:13; "instead of the ''brier'' shall come up the myrtle-tree." The Sept. has κόνυζα, which is a strong-smelling plant of the endive kind, ''flea-bane, Inula helenium,'' Linn. (Aristotle, ''Hist. An. 4:'' 8, 28; Diosc. 3:126). The [[Peshito]] has zetur, satureia, savory, wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum, a plant growing in great abundance in the desert of [[Sinai]] according to [[Burckhardt]] (Syr. ii). Gesenius (Thes. s.v.) rejects both these on etymological grounds, and prefers urtica (the rendering of the Vulg.) or nettle, considering the Heb. name to be a compound of סָרִ, to burn, and סָפִד, to ''sting.'' He also notices the opinion of Ewald ''(Gram.'' Crit. p. 520) that Sinapi album, the white mustard, is the plant meant, after the suggestion of Simonis. who compares the [[Syriac]] name of this plant, shephia. </p> <p> '''4.''' שָׁמַיר, ''shamir''' (from its ''sharpness),'' the most frequent term, and always so rendered (&nbsp;Isaiah 5:6; &nbsp;Isaiah 7:23-25; &nbsp;Isaiah 9:18; &nbsp;Isaiah 10:17; &nbsp;Isaiah 27:4; &nbsp;Isaiah 32:13), apparently a collective term for thorny Oriental shrubs; comp. the Arabic ''shamura,'' the [[Egyptian]] thorn-tree. It is merely spoken of as springing up in desolated lands; in two passages (&nbsp;Isaiah 10:17; &nbsp;Isaiah 27:4), it is put metaphorically for troublesome men. The Sept. renders usually ἄκανθα, sometimes χόρτος or ἄγρωστος ξηρά </p> <p> '''5.''' In &nbsp;Hebrews 6:8, the Gr. word is τρίβολος ''(threepronged), tribulus,'' the land ''caltrop'' ("thistle," &nbsp;Matthew 7:16), a low thorny shrub, so called from the resemblance of its spikes to the military "crow-foot," an instrument thrown on the ground to impede cavalry; the ''Tribulus terrestris'' of Linnaeus. </p> <p> Neither of the remaining Heb. words so rendered appear to designate any species of plant. One of these is בִּרְקָנַים '', barkanim''' (&nbsp;Judges 8:7; &nbsp;Judges 8:16; Sept. merely Greecizes βαρκανίμ), mentioned as one of the instruments by which [[Gideon]] punished the elders of Succoth; probably ''threshing- sledges,'' so called from the bottom being set ''with flint-stones,'' which the word seems prop. to denote. The other is סָרָבַים, ''sarabim''' (apparently from the Chald. root סָרִב, to ''be refractory), rebels,'' which are compared with thorns, &nbsp;Ezekiel 2:6 (Sept. παροιστήσουσιν, as if for סבב; Vulg. increduli). Some of the rabbins understand thorns, and Castell (in his Lex. Heptagl.) renders nettles; but the other interpretation is defended by [[Celsius]] (Hierob. ii, 222). </p>