קוֹץ

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

“Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”

Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

…and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”