Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7898
שַׁיִת
shayithshah'-yith
thornbush
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7898is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7898
scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)
The King James renders it: thorns.
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
shayith is rendered "thornbush". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Seven of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Isaiah 5:6וָשָׁ֑יִת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's seven uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and bush4
- and into the bush1
- bush1
- bush his1
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.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וָשַׁ֖יִת2
- וָשָׁ֑יִת2
- וְלַשַּׁ֖יִת1
- שַׁ֙יִת֙1
- שִׁית֥וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
Isaiah
seven uses
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- וָשָׁ֑יִתvashayitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bush
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- וְלַשַּׁ֖יִתvelashayitconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and into the bush
Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- וָשַׁ֖יִתvashayitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bush
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
- וָשָׁ֑יִתvashayitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bush
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- וָשַׁ֖יִתvashayitconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and bush
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
- שִׁית֥וֹshitonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: bush his
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- שַׁ֙יִת֙shayitnoun · masculine singulartagged: bush
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.