sir denotes thorns, pictured in their growth, crackling, and entangling presence.

The attested use depicts thorns in concrete imagery: crackling beneath a pot, growing over ruined places, and entangling those who are consumed; the translation does not clearly isolate the term’s contribution in Amos 4:2 or Hosea 2:8.

1. Thorns in vivid natural imagery · dominant

   The plural absolute forms occur in images of thorns: in Ecclesiastes 7:6 the APB renders “the crackling of thorns under a pot,” in Isaiah 34:13 it renders thorn growth in abandoned fortifications, and in Nahum 1:10 it renders people as “entangled like thorns” before being consumed.

   Ecclesiastes 7:6Isaiah 34:13Nahum 1:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “thorns” in Ecclesiastes 7:6 and Nahum 1:10 and “thorn” in Isaiah 34:13. Its wording in Amos 4:2 and Hosea 2:8 does not clearly identify a corresponding English expression for this lemma.