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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

THICKET

thik'-et (cebhakh (Genesis 22:13 Isaiah 9:18; Isaiah 10:34), or cobhekh (Jeremiah 4:7); in 1 Samuel 13:6, choach): A thick or dense growth of trees or shrubs (thorns, brambles), in which wild beasts may lurk (Jeremiah 4:7), or animals be caught by their horns (Genesis 22:13; Abraham's ram).

See FOREST.

Strong's Hebrew

5441. sebok -- a thicket
... 5440, 5441. sebok. 5442 . a thicket. Transliteration: sebok Phonetic Spelling:
(so'-bek) Short Definition: forest. ... thicket. From cabak; a copse -- thicket. ...
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5645. ab -- dark cloud, cloud mass, thicket
... ab. 5646 . dark cloud, cloud mass, thicket. Transliteration: ab Phonetic Spelling:
(awb) Short Definition: clouds. ... clay, thick cloud, thick, thicket. ...
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5442. sebak -- a thicket
... sebak. 5443 . a thicket. Transliteration: sebak Phonetic Spelling: (seb-awk')
Short Definition: thickets. ... thicket. From cabak, a copse -- thick(-et). ...
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2337. chavach -- thicket
... chavach. 2338 . thicket. Transliteration: chavach Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-vawkh')
Short Definition: thicket. Word Origin the same as choach, qv. thicket ...
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3293a. yaar -- wood, forest, thicket
... 3293, 3293a. yaar. 3293b . wood, forest, thicket. Transliteration: yaar
Short Definition: forest. Word Origin from an unused word ...
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5521. sukkah -- a thicket, booth
... 5520, 5521. sukkah. 5522 . a thicket, booth. Transliteration: sukkah Phonetic
Spelling: (sook-kaw') Short Definition: Booths. Word ...
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5520. sok -- a thicket, covert, lair
... 5519, 5520. sok. 5521 . a thicket, covert, lair. Transliteration: sok
Phonetic Spelling: (soke) Short Definition: tabernacle. Word ...
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3293. ya'ar -- wood, forest, thicket
ya'ar. 3292, 3293. ya'ar. 3293a . wood, forest, thicket. Transliteration:
ya'ar Phonetic Spelling: (yah'-ar) Short Definition: comb. honeycomb, forest, wood ...
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5285. naatsuts -- a thorn bush
... thorn. From an unused root meaning to prick; probably a brier; by implication, a
thicket of thorny bushes -- thorn. 5284, 5285. naatsuts. 5286 . ...
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7730. sobek -- a network (of boughs)
... thick boughs. For cobek; a thicket, ie Interlaced branches -- thick boughs. see
HEBREW cobek. 7729, 7730. sobek. 7731 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Genesis iii. 22
... even feel a doubt,"a doubt, I say, though not a reasonable belief,"but a doubt which
at times would press us sorely, whether the tangled thicket in which ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the christian life/lecture i genesis iii 22.htm

Abraham and Isaac. Genesis xxii.
... No one spoke to God when it pleased Him to bruise His Well-beloved. 13.""A ram
caught in a thicket.". ... The ram is in the thicket all the time. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/champness/broken bread/xxv abraham and isaac genesis.htm

Lost in the Woods
... We then found another blaze and pursued it till it divided into two; one of these
we followed through an almost impassable thicket, a mile beyond which it ended ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the journal of john wesley/lost in the woods.htm

Jehovah-Jireh
... When we get to the place we shall find some lamb 'caught in the thicket by its horns';
and heaven itself will supply what is needful for our burnt offering. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/jehovah-jireh.htm

Faith Tested and Crowned
... And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in
a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/faith tested and crowned.htm

Talmage -- a Bloody Monster
... A monster such as never ranged African thicket or Hindustan jungle hath tracked
this land, and with bloody maw hath strewn the continent with the mangled ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 8/talmage a bloody monster.htm

The Word of the Truth of the Gospel
... All this through the seed of the woman - "the man" who is the true "hiding place."
Adam can now leave his thicket safely; and feel that in this revealed grace ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bonar/gods way of peace/chapter vii the word of.htm

Secondly, to Assign Some Reasons Why Christians must Make this the ...
... and vanity of their thoughts God took particular notice; and because of this the
Chaldeans must come upon them, " as a lion from his thicket, and tear them to ...
/.../flavel/on keeping the heart/secondly to assign some reasons.htm

So, when You Allege that the Ornaments of the Heathen Deities are ...
... Reflect on what a thicket it is, and how many thorns lie hid in it. Nothing must
be given to an idol, and so nothing must be taken from one. ...
/.../tertullian/the chaplet or de corona/chapter x so when you.htm

The Lost Opportunity
... Suddenly there is a snap and a bound, and the guard arouses himself just in time
to see his prisoner dash into the thicket, and he is gone. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and judas iscariot/the lost opportunity.htm

Thesaurus

Thicket (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely
set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. ... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. THICKET. ...
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Hedge (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted
as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of ...
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Forest (67 Occurrences)
... (see BAALBEC.). Hebrews horesh, denoting a thicket of trees, underwood, jungle,
bushes, or trees entangled, and therefore affording a safe hiding-place. place. ...
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Lair (8 Occurrences)
... remain in their dens. (DBY NAS RSV). Job 38:40 when they crouch in their
dens, and lie in wait in the thicket? (See NAS). Psalms 10:9 ...
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Thickets (14 Occurrences)

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Thick (129 Occurrences)
... 11. (n.) A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. 12. ... (BBE). Psalms 74:5 They behaved
like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. ...
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Upwards (18 Occurrences)
... Job 5:7 For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards. (DBY). Psalms
74:5 They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. (See JPS). ...
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Jungle (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines,
etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation ...
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Jehovah-jireh (1 Occurrence)
... Jehovah will see; ie, will provide, the name given by Abraham to the scene of his
offering up the ram which was caught in the thicket on Mount Moriah. ...
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Jehovahjireh (1 Occurrence)
... Jehovah will see; ie, will provide, the name given by Abraham to the scene of his
offering up the ram which was caught in the thicket on Mount Moriah. ...
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Bible Concordance

Thicket (9 Occurrences)

Genesis 22:13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 38:40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
(WEB DBY YLT NIV)

Psalms 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.
(DBY)

Psalms 74:5 They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NIV)

Jeremiah 4:7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet how wilt thou do in the thickets of the Jordan?
(Root in JPS NAS NIV)

Hosea 2:12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said,'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.
(See NIV)

Amos 3:4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
(WEB NIV)

Zechariah 11:3 Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is spoiled; Hark! the roaring of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are spoiled.
(Root in JPS NIV)

Subtopics

Thicket

Related Terms

Hedge (12 Occurrences)

Forest (67 Occurrences)

Lair (8 Occurrences)

Thickets (14 Occurrences)

Thick (129 Occurrences)

Upwards (18 Occurrences)

Jungle (4 Occurrences)

Jehovah-jireh (1 Occurrence)

Jehovahjireh (1 Occurrence)