Shayith — H7898

Definition

masculine noun

scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)

1. thorn bushes

Usually translated as

thorns

Origin

from H7896

• Derived from Shîyth (H7896)

Greek equivalents

• ákantha (G173)
• elaúnō (G1643)
• kalámē (G2562)

Occurrences

Shayith occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Isaiah (7)

• Isaiah 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns (וָשָׁ֑יִת): I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
• Isaiah 7:23 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns (וְלַשַּׁ֖יִת).
• Isaiah 7:24 — With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns (וָשַׁ֖יִת).
• Isaiah 7:25 — And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns (וָשָׁ֑יִת): but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
• Isaiah 9:18 — For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns (וָשַׁ֖יִת), and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
• Isaiah 10:17 — And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns (שִׁית֥וֹ) and his briers in one day;
• Isaiah 27:4 — Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns (שַׁ֙יִת֙) against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.