Strong's #2336: chowach (pronounced kho'-akh)

from an unused root apparently meaning to pierce; a thorn; by analogy, a ring for the nose:--bramble, thistle, thorn.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chôach

1) thorn, brier, bramble, thornbush, thicket

2) hook, ring, fetter

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root apparently meaning to pierce

Same Word by TWOT Number: 620a, 620b

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

2 Kings 14:9: "king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to"
2 Kings 14:9: "was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle."
2 Chronicles 25:18: "king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to"
2 Chronicles 25:18: "was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle."
2 Chronicles 33:11: "Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon."
Job 31:40: " Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words"
Job 41:2: "into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?"
Proverbs 26:9: " As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools."
Song of Solomon 2:2: "As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."
Isaiah 34:13: "shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons,"
Hosea 9:6: "them: the pleasant nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles."