Definition

scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)

Etymology

from H7896 (שִׁית);

Word family

• שִׁית shîyth

How the KJV renders it

• thorns

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.