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שֵׂךְ

sekh

thorn

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Strong’s H7899Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

thorns1

In the text

Numbers 33:55לְשִׂכִּים
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שֵׂךְ] n.[m.] thorn;—pl. Nu 33:55

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.