Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6975
קוֹץ
qotskotse
thorn
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qôwts
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6975is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6975
a thorn
The King James renders it: thorn.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qots is rendered "thorn". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Two of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:18וְק֥וֹץ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- thornbushes2
- thorns2
- and a thorn1
- and thorn1
- and thorns1
- like thorn1
- the thorns of1
- thorn1
- thornbush1
- thorns of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- קוֹצֵ֥י2
- וְק֥וֹץ1
- וְק֣וֹץ1
- וְקֹצִ֣ים1
- כְּק֥וֹץ1
- ק֥וֹץ1
- ק֣וֹץ1
- קוֹצִ֑ים1
- קוֹצִ֥ים1
- קוֹצִֽים׃1
- קֹצִים֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- וְק֥וֹץvekotzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and thorn
Exodus
one use
If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
- קֹצִים֙kotzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thornbushes
Judges
two uses
“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”
- קוֹצֵ֥יkotzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the thorns of
Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.
- קוֹצֵ֥יkotzeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: thorns of
2 Samuel
one use
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
- כְּק֥וֹץkekotzpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like thorn
Psalms
one use
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- קוֹצִ֑יםkotzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thorns
Isaiah
two uses
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
- ק֥וֹץkotznoun · masculine singulartagged: thornbush
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
- קוֹצִ֥יםkotzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thornbushes
Jeremiah
two uses
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
- קוֹצִֽים׃kotzimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: thorns
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- וְקֹצִ֣יםvekotzimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and thorns
Ezekiel
one use
For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
- וְק֣וֹץvekotzconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a thorn
Hosea
one use
The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
- ק֣וֹץkotznoun · masculine singulartagged: thorn
The letters
Gematria 196· 1,006 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.