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# brier

«brier» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (briers)

### meaning for a pupil

A brier is another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A prickly, thorny plant. Briers and thorns are signs of land gone wild and empty. Interpretation: The prophets use briers for a land ruined by sin. Isaiah also pictures them being burned in God's anger. In the primary lessons: in animal tales from the American south, the brier-patch is where the rabbit hides from the fox

### examples

- Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! (Prophets ISA.27.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x1)
- With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. (Prophets ISA.7.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x2)
- For the land of my people whereon thorns and briers come up; yea, for all the houses of joy and the joyous city. (Prophets ISA.32.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x3)
- "Don't fling me in that brier-patch," said Brer Rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x4)
- The thorns on the brier scratched the boy's legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x5)
- The rabbit ran into the brier-patch and was safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/#x6)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.160/)
- [Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.547/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/brier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.