H7898

שַׁ֫יִת

sha.yitH:N-M

thornbush

thorn bushes

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

שַׁ֫יִת noun [masculine] collective thorn-bushes (connection with above √ dubious; DietrAbh.73 compare (improbable) שׁאה devastate, אִיָּה ruin, whence ׳שׁ wild, rough growth); — always with שָׁמִיר: absolute ׳שׁ Isa 7:23; Isa 7:24; Isa 9:17; Isa 27:4 (compare Du); שָׁ֑יִת Isa 5:6; Isa 7:25 suffix שִׁיתוֺ Isa 10:17 (figurative of Assyr.).


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