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(1.) Hebrew atad, kjv@Judges:9:14; rendered "thorn," kjv@Psalms:58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn.

(2.) Hebrew hoah, kjv@Isaiah:34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in kjv@1Samuel:13:6; "thistles" in kjv@2Kings:14:9, kjv@2Chronicals:25:18, kjv@Job:31:40; "thorns" in kjv@2Chronicals:33:11, Cant. kjv@2:2, Hosea:9:6. The word may be regarded as denoting the common thistle, of which there are many species which encumber the corn-fields of Palestine. (
See THORNS.)