Bramble

"(1.) Hebrew atad, Judg. 9:14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58:9. The" "LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in" "Palestine, resembling the hawthorn." "(2.) Hebrew hoah, Isa. 34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in 1 "Sam. 13:6; "thistles" in 2 Kings 14:9, 2 Chr. 25:18, Job 31:40;" "thorns in 2 Chr. 33:11, Cant. 2:2, Hos. 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 [74]THORNS.)