Lexical Definition

‎חֵדֶק‎ chêdeq (khay'-dek) briar ^H:N-M
from an unused root meaning to sting

brier, thorn.

• a prickly plant

1) brier, thorn, prick

See Greek: ἄκανθα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חֵ֑דֶק‎ noun [masculine] brier (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎חִדְקָא‎ Löw^{p. 147, No. 104}; compare Arabic a kind of night-shade, see Lane⁵³²); — ‎טוֺבָם כַּחֵדֶק‎ Mic 7:4 the best of them (si vera lectio) is like the brier (|| ‎יָשָׁר מִמְּסוּכָה‎); ‎דֶּרֶךְ עָצֵל כִּמְשֻׂכַת חָ֑דֶק‎ Prov 15:19 the way of a sluggard is like a brier-hedge.

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