Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. 2. (n.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. 3. (n.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. 4. (n.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. 5. (n.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. 6. (n.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. 7. (n.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. 8. (n.) The footprint of a hare. 9. (n.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. 10. (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. 11. (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. 12. (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. 13. (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. 14. (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. 15. (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. 16. (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. 17. (n.) To render acid or pungent. 18. (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. 19. (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. 20. (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. 21. (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. 22. (n.) To nick. 23. (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. 24. (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback. 25. (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. 26. (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PRICK prik: As a noun (= any slender pointed thing, a thorn, a sting) it translates two words: (1) sekh, a "thorn" or "prickle." Only in Numbers 33:55, "those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes," i.e. "shall be a source of painful trouble to you." (2) kentron "an iron goad" for urging on oxen and other beasts of burden: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks" (the King James Version of Acts 9:5, where the Revised Version (British and American) omits the whole phrase, following the best manuscripts, including Codices Sinaiticus, A, B, C, E; the King James Version of Acts 26:14, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "goad," margin "Greek: `goads' "), i.e. to offer vain and perilous resistance. See GOAD. As a verb (= "to pierce with something sharply pointed," "to sting"), it occurs once in its literal sense: "a pricking brier" (Ezekiel 28:24); and twice in a figurative sense: "I was pricked in my heart" (Psalm 73:21); "They were pricked in their heart" (Acts 2:37, katanusso, Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) compungo; compare English word "compunction"). D. Miall Edwards

Multi-Version Concordance Prick (2 Occurrences) Psalms 73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. (Root in KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV) Ezekiel 28:24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)