This word appears four times in the Bible in the sense of “thorns” (Isaiah 34:13, Nahum 1:10, Ecclesiastes 7:6, Hoshea 2:8). Rashi (to Nahum 1:10) writes that some explain sirim as related to ...

Thorns and thistles may be the Bible’s classic metaphors for evil. But did the biblical writers ever meet kudzu? In late spring across the Eastern United States, the shrub Lonicera maackii ...

But surrounding these roses of joys and happiness will be heartaches and there will be thorns and thistles as mankind pursues the roses of life. Adam, your paradise will be replaced by a wilderness.