Word Study · Strong's G5146 · Greek
τρίβολος
tribolos
trib'-ol-os
Strong's 1890 spelling: tríbolos
“properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)
Rendered in the KJV as
brier, thistle.
- 2occurrencesin the New Testament
- 2 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- τριβόλους1
- τριβόλων1
How it is rendered · 1
- thistles2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1
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- N-APM · 1
- N-GPM · 1
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Where this word lives
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