Strong's #1303: barqan (pronounced bar-kwan')
from 1300; a thorn (perhaps as burning brightly):--brier.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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barqân
1) briers, briars
Part of Speech: noun masculine plural
Relation: from H1300
Usage:
This word is used 2 times:
Judges 8:7: "the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
Judges 8:16: "of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth."