Strong's Greek · G5146

G5146 tríbolos

τρίβολος

brier, thistle

When tríbolos is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

properly, a crow-foot (three-pronged obstruction in war), i.e. (by analogy) a thorny plant (caltrop)

Derivation

from G5140 (τρεῖς) and G956 (βέλος);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Matthew 7:16

By their fruit you will recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

When tríbolos is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what tríbolos means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Hebrews 6:8 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

How weighing a word works

Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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