σκόλοψ, -οπος, ὁ [in LXX: Num.33:55 (שֵׂךְ), Hos.2:6 (8) (סִיר), Eze.28:24 (סִלּוֹן), Sir.43:19 *;] anything pointed, esp. 1) in cl, a stake 2)
In Hellenistic vernacular, a thorn (cf. LXX, ll. with): σ. τῇ σαρκί, 2Co.12:7 (cf. MM, i, xxiii;
DB, iii, 700 f; Deiss, St. Paul, 62 f; Field,
Notes, 187). (
AS)