Strong's #6975: qowts (pronounced kotse)

or qots {kotse}; from 6972 (in the sense of pricking); a thorn:--thorn.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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qôts

1) thorn, thornbush

1a) thornbush

1b) thorn

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H6972 (in the sense of pricking)

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

Genesis 3:18: " Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;"
Exodus 22:6: "fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or"
Judges 8:7: "your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
Judges 8:16: "the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught"
2 Samuel 23:6: "But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:"
Psalms 118:12: "like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy"
Isaiah 32:13: "the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all"
Isaiah 33:12: "shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire."
Jeremiah 4:3: "and sow not among thorns."
Jeremiah 12:13: "They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed"
Ezekiel 28:24: "unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised"
Hosea 10:8: "the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars;"