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)

anything pointed; a stake; a thorn