Thorn

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

The ground cursed with

• Genesis 3:18 Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Used

As an awl

• Job 41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

For fuel

• Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
• Psalm 118:12 They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
• Ecclesiastes 7:6 For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

Hedges formed of

• Hosea 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
• Micah 7:4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

Crown of, mockingly put on Jesus' head

• Matthew 27:29 And they twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on His head. They put a staff in His right hand, knelt down before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
• Mark 15:17 They dressed Him in a purple robe, twisted together a crown of thorns, and set it on His head.
• John 19:2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe.
• John 19:5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

Figurative

Of afflictions

• Numbers 33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
• 2 Corinthians 12:7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Of the adversities of the wicked

• Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

Of the evils that spring from the heart to choke the truth

• Matthew 13:7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
• Matthew 13:22 The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.