5146. tribolos
Lexicon
tribolos: Thistle, thorn, brier

Original Word: τρίβολος
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: tribolos
Pronunciation: TREE-bo-los
Phonetic Spelling: (trib'-ol-os)
KJV: brier, thistle
NASB: thistles
Word Origin: [from G5140 (τρεῖς - three) and G956 (βέλος - Arrow)]

1. (properly) a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war)
2. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
brier, thistle.

From treis and belos; properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop) -- brier, thistle.

see GREEK treis

see GREEK belos

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from treis and belos
Definition
a thistle
NASB Translation
thistles (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5146: τρίβολος

τρίβολος, τριβολου, (τρεῖς and βάλλω ((cf. βέλος), three-pointed)), a thistle, a prickly wild plant, hurtful to other plants: Matthew 7:16; Hebrews 6:8. (Aristophanes, others; the Sept. for דַּרְדַּר, Genesis 3:18; Hosea 10:8; for צְנִינִים thorns, Proverbs 22:5.) (Cf. B. D. under the word, Thorns and Thistles, 4; Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 302.)

Forms and Transliterations
τρίβολοι τριβόλοις τριβολους τριβόλους τριβολων τριβόλων tribolon tribolōn tribólon tribólōn tribolous tribólous
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 7:16 N-GMP
GRK: ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα
NAS: figs from thistles, are they?
KJV: figs of thistles?
INT: or from thistles figs

Hebrews 6:8 N-AMP
GRK: ἀκάνθας καὶ τριβόλους ἀδόκιμος καὶ
NAS: thorns and thistles, it is worthless
KJV: thorns and briers [is] rejected, and
INT: thorns and thistles [is] rejected and

Strong's Greek 5146
2 Occurrences


τριβόλων — 1 Occ.
τριβόλους — 1 Occ.

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