Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Thorn’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Thorn’ occurs 44 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 22:13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw behind his back a ram among the thorns, caught by the horns, which he took and offered as a holocaust, instead of his son.Genesis 22:13
Number of the word / term Thorn in Genesis: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Judges
Judges 8:7 And he said to them, “So then, when the Lord will have delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.”Judges 8:7
Judges 8:16 Therefore, he took the elders of the city, and, using the thorns and briers of the desert, he threshed them with these, and he cut the men of Succoth to pieces.Judges 8:16
Number of the word / term Thorn in Judges: 2
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 23:6 But all prevaricators shall be plucked out like thorns, yet they are not taken away by hands.2 Samuel 23:6
Number of the word / term Thorn in 2 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Job
Job 30:7 They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.Job 30:7
Job 31:40 then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.)Job 31:40
Number of the word / term Thorn in Job: 2
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 32:4 For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing.Psalm 32:4
Psalm 58:9 Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.Psalm 58:9
Psalm 118:12 They surrounded me like a swarm, and they burned like fire among the thorns. And, in the name of the Lord, I have been avenged over them.Psalm 118:12
Number of the word / term Thorn in Psalm: 3
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 15:19 The way of the slothful is like a hedge of thorns. The way of the just is without offense.Proverbs 15:19
Proverbs 24:31 and behold, it was entirely filled with nettles, and thorns had covered its surface, and the stonewall was destroyed.Proverbs 24:31
Proverbs 26:9 In the manner of a thorn, if it were to spring up from the hand of a drunkard, so also is a parable in the mouth of the foolish.Proverbs 26:9
Number of the word / term Thorn in Proverbs: 3
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 7:6 For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.Ecclesiastes 7:6
Number of the word / term Thorn in Ecclesiastes: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Song
Song of Solomon 2:2 Groom: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my loved one among the daughters.Song of Solomon 2:2
Number of the word / term Thorn in Song: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate. It will not be pruned, and it will not be dug. And briers and thorns will rise up. And I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.Isaiah 5:6
Isaiah 7:23 And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.Isaiah 7:23
Isaiah 7:24 They will enter such places with arrows and bows. For briers and thorns will be throughout the entire land.Isaiah 7:24
Isaiah 7:25 But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle.”Isaiah 7:25
Isaiah 9:18 For impiety has been kindled like a fire: it will devour brier and thorn, and it will burn in the dense forest, and it will be interwoven with the ascending smoke.Isaiah 9:18
Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel will be like a fire, and the Holy One of Israel will be like a flame. And his thorns and briers will be set ablaze and devoured, in one day.Isaiah 10:17
Isaiah 27:4 Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together.Isaiah 27:4
Isaiah 33:12 And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.Isaiah 33:12
Isaiah 34:13 And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.Isaiah 34:13
Isaiah 41:19 I will plant the cedar in a deserted place, with the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree. In the desert, I will plant the pine, and the elm, and the box tree together,Isaiah 41:19
Number of the word / term Thorn in Isaiah: 10
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 4:3 For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and of Jerusalem: “Break new ground, and do not choose to sow upon thorns.Jeremiah 4:3
Jeremiah 12:13 They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.Jeremiah 12:13
Number of the word / term Thorn in Jeremiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 28:24 And the house of Israel will no longer be a stumbling block of bitterness, nor a thorn bringing pain everywhere around them, to those who turn against them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.”Ezekiel 28:24
Number of the word / term Thorn in Ezekiel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 2:6 Because of this, behold, I will fence in your way with thorns, and I will surround it with a wall, and she will not find her paths.Hosea 2:6
Number of the word / term Thorn in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Joel
Joel 3:18 And it will happen, in that day, that the mountains will drip sweetness, and the hills will flow with milk. And the waters will pass through all the rivers of Judah. And a fountain will go forth from the house of the Lord, and it will irrigate the desert of thorns.Joel 3:18
Number of the word / term Thorn in Joel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Nahum
Nahum 1:10 For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.Nahum 1:10
Number of the word / term Thorn in Nahum: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Zephaniah
Zephaniah 2:9 Because of this, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, like the dryness of thorns, and piles of salt, and a desert, all the way to eternity. The remnant of my people will despoil them, and the residue of my nation will possess them.Zephaniah 2:9
Number of the word / term Thorn in Zephaniah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 7:16 You shall know them by their fruits. Can grapes be gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?Matthew 7:16
Matthew 13:7 Still others fell among thorns, and the thorns increased and suffocated them.Matthew 13:7
Matthew 13:22 And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.Matthew 13:22
Matthew 27:29 And plaiting a crown of thorns, they placed it on his head, with a reed in his right hand. And genuflecting before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews.”Matthew 27:29
Number of the word / term Thorn in Matthew: 4
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Mark
Mark 4:7 And some fell among thorns. And the thorns grew up and suffocated it, and it did not produce fruit.Mark 4:7
Mark 4:18 And there are others who are sown among thorns. These are those who hear the word,Mark 4:18
Mark 15:17 And they clothed him with purple. And platting a crown of thorns, they placed it on him.Mark 15:17
Number of the word / term Thorn in Mark: 3
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Luke
Luke 6:44 For each and every tree is known by its fruit. For they do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather the grape from the bramble bush.Luke 6:44
Luke 8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns, rising up with it, suffocated it.Luke 8:7
Luke 8:14 And those which fell among thorns are those who have heard it, but as they go along, they are suffocated by the concerns and riches and pleasures of this life, and so they do not yield fruit.Luke 8:14
Number of the word / term Thorn in Luke: 3
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book John
John 19:2 And the soldiers, plaiting a crown of thorns, imposed it on his head. And they put a purple garment around him.John 19:2
John 19:5 (Then Jesus went out, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.) And he said to them, “Behold the man.”John 19:5
Number of the word / term Thorn in John: 2
Bible passages with ‘Thorn’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 6:8 But whatever brings forth thorns and briers is rejected, and is closest to what is accursed; their consummation is in combustion.Hebrews 6:8
Number of the word / term ‘Thorn’ in Hebrews: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 44
