thistle

Greek Noun Male

τρίβολος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Gen.3:18, Hos.10:8 (דַּרְדַּר), 2Ki.12:31 (חָרִיץ), Pro.22:5 (צֵן)*;] a thistle: Mat.7:16, Heb.6:8. (AS)

thistle

Greek Noun Male

τρίβολος [ῐ], ὁ, name of various prickly plants, a) water-chestnut, Trapa natans, τ. ἔνυδρος [Refs 4th c.BC+] b) caltrops, Tribulus terrestris, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. περικαρπιάκανθος, χερσαῖος, [LXX+7th c.BC+] c) τ. φυλλάκανθος, thorny trefoil, Fagonia cretica, [Refs 4th c.BC+] d) τ. παραθαλάσσιος, prickly samphire, Echinophora spinosa, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II) τρίβολοι, οἱ, a threshing-machine, a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom, [LXX+3rd c.BC+]; τ. ξύλινος (in the section περὶ κάρρων) [Refs 1st c.AD+] III) caltrop, i. e. a four-spiked implement thrown on the ground to lame the enemy's horses, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] III.b) τ. πηχῶν έ a larger contrivance for stopping boulders, etc, thrown down a slope, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] III.c) οἱ κατακρημνώμενοι τ. an instrument hung from the walls of a fortress as a defence against battering-rams, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] III.d) a kind of missile, τριβόλων σιδηρῶν σφενδονῆται [Refs 1st c.BC+]; οἱ τ. οἱ καιόμενοι a kind of incendiary missile, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] IV) part of the bit of a bridle, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] V) uncertain meaning in naval dockyard records, σίδηρος ἐκ τοῦ τ. [Refs] VI) as adjective, three-tiered, πυρὰ πυργοειδὴς τ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Greek

Noun Masculine

properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop); brier, thistle; from g5140 (τρεῖς) and g956 (βέλος)